Black Lives Matter? Not in Wisconsin, and Not in the Democratic Party
Madison, Wisconsin — This is Wisconsin, folks.
We'll soon let off a white Kenosha cop who shot a black man point-blank seven times in the back, but two innocent Black Lives Matter protesters are violent felons and must be prosecuted without evidence, say a corrupt Democratic Party district attorney and a reactionary Milwaukee Democratic Party state senator.
The cause of truth and simple decency is lost.
Two criminal cases will at some point be tossed out of out court, if Circuit Court Judge Stephen Ehlke (D) grows a spine, or end with a verdict and an exoneration.
It's the way it is in Wisconsin; life is cheap, and the judiciary is corrupt in favor of the police and prosecutors — two institutions irretrievably undeserving of public regard.
Black Lives Matter protesters Kerida O’Reilly and Samantha Hamer, two socially conscious area women in their 20s with no criminal records, stand accused of the felony crime of Substantial Battery with Intent to Cause Bodily Harm against State Sen. Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee) for not-even-alleged action at a June 23-24 Black Lives Matter protest.
That's right. There is no specific allegation detailing how Mses O’Reilly and Hamer battered Carpenter, a rightwing Dem who calls himself "rash."
There is no video evidence showing Mses O’Reilly and Hamer laying a finger on Carpenter.
Carpenter admitted in a court hearing he cannot identify the defendants as touching him.
Carpenter, who has worked his entire career mobilizing the war on drugs
against people of color, admits he has no idea who may have hit him, and you can bet he would implicate the two liberation workers, if he could.
Madison police detective Linda Trevarthen who led the investigation similarly acknowledged that there is no evidence, none, the women specifically touched Carpenter in any way, (Rickert, Wisconsin State Journal).
In fact, according to Carpenter and another witness, the confrontation that Carpenter incited and provoked included some eight to 10 people during a chaotic melee.
Everyone agrees the scene was chaotic.
Tim Carpenter stayed true to form in using police to take the side of white supremacists as an agent provocateur this time, as the legislator took it to the streets to work to imprison the wrong kind of Wisconsinite.
White supremacis have doxxed and induced the arrest of liberation protesters across the country, so folks were nervous that night, perfect prey for Carpenter.
Tim Carpenter also performed a fall on the Capitol grounds in front of a WKOW-TV crew; went on a public relations spree in the Summer to demonize Black Lives Matter; sponsored a bill to criminalize damaging statutes out of Carpenter's petty spite; and accosted and harassed a black candidate for the State Senate.
Did
Carpenter, with a racist past in holding his elected office of public trust and a proven hostility to those working for people of color in Wisconsin,
throw a punch first, and others then interceded to defend a victim?
No evidence has been made public that indicts Carpenter or any other single person. Yet, District Atty Ozanne moves the cases forward using his office standard of evidentiary proof that he has concluded charges against Mses O’Reilly and Hamer can be proven to a trial jury beyond a reasonable doubt.
It's absurd.
Not one elected representative of any municipal, County or State office has challenged the prosecutions of these two women, though Carpenter is known around the Capitol for his delusional self-regard and pettiness, qualities acknowledged by Carpenter.
The district attorney, Carpenter and no video evidence tell us when, where, how and by whom Carpenter was allegedly battered after Carpenter managed to incite some eight to 10 people during a chaotic melee.
Consider that.
But a simple parking ticket informs you when, where, how and which vehicle was involved in a parking offense.
But the Democratic Party's district attorney, state senator and judge want to chuck these requirements away for a felony crime that could irretrievably harm two innocent women, who as demanded by their conscience, marched with Black Lives Matter workers in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd.
We have a problem in Wisconsin, and this problem will not go away through inattention.
Both women are scheduled for a pre-trial conference the day after Election Day on Nov. 4.
Folks can contact State Sen Tim Carpenter
(D-Milwaukee) to ask why he rejects decarceration, decriminalization,
police defunding. As we work with our historic movement, Carpenter instead
authors bill expanding criminal code to protect statues and works to persecute two innocent Black Lives Matter workers.
(608) 266-8535
Sen.Carpenter@legis.wisconsin.gov
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