Here’s what happened in the world of women’s hoops this past week:
Riquna Williams arrested on alleged domestic battery charges
The Aces’ Riquna Williams is facing nine domestic battery charges — five felony and four misdemeanor charges — after her arrest by the Las Vegas Police on Tuesday. The alleged incident involved Williams and her spouse. A report from ESPN includes further details.
The list of charges against Riquna Williams made public by the Clark County Detention Center includes three felony counts of strangulation, one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon, one felony count of coercion, and four misdemeanor counts of domestic battery #WNBA pic.twitter.com/cgdYRxEwEr
— Hoopfeed.com (@hoopfeed) July 26, 2023
The WNBA, WNBPA and Las Vegas Aces released statements about Williams’ arrest.
In 2019, when Williams, who then played for the Los Angeles Sparks, was arrested in Florida on charges of “burglary with assault or battery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill,” I criticized the responses of the WNBA, WNBPA and Sparks, suggesting they were undermining the values they claimed to hold by failing to come down swiftly and stringently on Williams.
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