Tim Carpenter Wants to Expand Criminal Code to Protect Statues

Update: 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
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Madison, Wisconsin — Statues are more important than black lives.

Black Lives Matter delivered this message to Wisconsin on June 23.

Wisconsin State Sen. Tim Carpenter (D) heard the liberation protesters and his response is:  Black lives do not matter, nor should they.

Carpenter traveled to Madison on June 23 to confront the Black Lives Matter protesters, an incident that Carpenter, in his evolving narrative, 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 on the verge of collapse that Carpenter performed minutes later when entering the capitol square grounds that Carpenter knows is under surveillance..

Carpenter is a politician from a Milwaukee district, where he has spent three decades in the legislature working to protect laws that target black and brown people —  for example, blocking pot decriminalization, because keeping pot on the criminal code is a ready means of enhancing black time behind bars.

Now, Carpenter wants to make felons out of anyone who damages statues, co-authoring a bill introduced yesterday.

Reports the Associated Press:

[The bill] would make damaging or defacing any structure, plaque, statue, painting or other monument of historical significance on public property or maintained by a government entity a felony punishable by up to three-and-a-half years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Carpenter also demands that police arrest the protesters with whom he started a confrontation.

Since the June 23 confrontation, Carpenter has been issuing updates on his recovery, concluding with his proposed expansion of the Wisconsin Criminal Code, and a mid-July media blitz in Madison and Milwaukee. Carpenter has hyped his confrontation to the hilt, yet noone outside of Black Lives Matter allies has questioned Carpenter's story.

Carpenter is well-known in the capitol as a narcissist, someone whom you need to get around to pass progressive legislation.

Here we are seven weeks out from vicious killing of George Floyd, and massive protests against systemic racism.

Nothing from Carpenter on decarceration, decriminalization, police defunding, and radical change that makes Wisconsin the worst place to be black.

What Tim Carpenter wants is to imprison a good chunk of liberation workers who rallied on the Capitol Square June 23-24 after his high-profile victimhood act that appears more unconvincing the more Carpenter replays it to the media.