So, when Carpenter showed up late at night at a Black Lives Matter protest on June 23, it wasn't to express his love for black people. The Milwaukee legislator has worked against black folks for a long time.
In fact, Carpenter has worked his whole legislative career mobilizing the war against drugs directed against people of color.
After state Democrats regained unitary control of the state legislative and executive branches in 2007-11, Carpenter, while working as a member of the out-sized Joint Finance Committee, killed marijuana reform and doctor-prescribed marijuana.
Pot possession and distribution charges are an effective means of keeping black and brown people in prison, and Carpenter is all-in for this enterprise.
[Folks can contact State Sen Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee) to ask why he rejects decarceration, decriminalization, police defunding. Seven weeks into historic movement, Carpenter instead authors bill expanding criminal code to protect statues.
(608) 266-8535
Sen.Carpenter@legis.wisconsin.gov ]
Carpenter traveled to Madison on June 23 to confront the Black Lives Matter protesters, an incident that Carpenter, in his evolving narratives, says ended up with a fight, after which the legislator proclaimed his love for black people and then walked to the capitol, where he collapsed near a WKOW-TV crew, (Pittman/WORT News). Listen to audio and ask if Carpenter speaking sounds like he is on the verge of collapse that Carpenter performed minutes later when entering the capitol square grounds that Carpenter knows is under surveillance and enjoyed a heavy media presence.
In fact, video shows Carpenter performed his 'collapse' at which Carpenter laid down gently on soft plants (instead of the pavement) and then used the subsequent four weeks to issue press statements hyping his 'recovery.' He didn't fall down uncontrollably, he performed a nice, easy set-down in front of WKOW-TV to dramatize the confrontation that he began.
He then pitched the story to local and national media, overemphasizing that he is "gay," a nice angle to gain prominence in the identity-politics-obsessed corporate media.
His anti-Black Lives Matter true colors revealed subsequently, Carpenter then became unhinged, and he harassed and accosted a black candidate for a Dane County state senate seat, Nada Elmikashfi, for daring to criticize Carpenter's proposed expansion of the Wisconsin Criminal Code to protect statutes, but not black lives.
A reprimand from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin put an end to Carpenter's tirade.
Don't believe the hype as Madison Police and the Dane County District Attorney's Office charge-stack two Black Lives Matter allies at a protest leading to a confrontation that Carpenter began, that he wanted and is now using for his own racist ends.
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