STILLWATER, OKLAHOMA — Footage has surfaced of an inmate coming to the rescue of a corrections officers who was being attacked by another inmate in the booking area of the Payne County jail. <br /> <br />Surveillance video shows inmate Tashka Robert Frank Meret, 24, walk out of the holding cell, and then suddenly attacking the jailer. <br /> <br />Meret throws several punches and then picks the jailer up, before throwing him to the ground. <br /> <br />The corrections officer then gets back on his feet and him and Meret square off. <br /> <br />That’s when a second inmate, Robert Charles Hammock, who was sitting on a bench waiting to be processed, rushed over to lend a helping hand, according to deputies. <br /> <br />Hammock comes up behind Meret and restrains him. Then he and the jailer take Meret down to the ground just as other corrections officers come over to help. <br /> <br />According to a KOCO 5 report, Maret had been initially booked on public intoxication and petty larceny. <br /> <br />He now is looking at a charge of assault on a police officer, which carries a sentence of up to five years if convicted.
