Racist Wisconsin State Sen's Crusade Against Black Lives Matter Protester at Trial Oct 15

State Sen. Tim Carpenter faked a collapse in front of
WKOW-TV at the Capitol, and then began his media
campaign demonizing Black Lives Matter. This fake
collapse was preceded by Carpenter's hollered
conversation as the Democrat spoke with several
protest medics and peacekeepers in an
eight-minute conversation captured on audio,
(Pittman/WORT News). Audio shows Carpenter
declining medical attention before faking his collapse.

Dane County Asst DA William Brown: 'We don’t know what happened.'

Madison, Wisconsin — You have to give credit to Wisconsin State Sen Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee). 

The reactionary state senator hates Black Lives Matter, and nothing will get in the way of his racist crusade.

So, all credit for his determination to destroy a young Black Lives Matter protester's life, Kerida E. O'Reilly: No criminal record, a socially conscious Madison woman who believes police should not kill black people.

Ms. O'Reilly faces two felony charges and a misdemeanor for an unspecified act that noone says she committed at a June 23-24, 2020 Black Lives Matter protest. It bears repeating: The State is charging the woman for no acts they can identify her as committing.

Welcome to the Democrat Party and the criminal justice system.

And Dane County District Attorney, Ismael Ozaane. Shame on you, you should know better.

The case is being heard by a reliable prosecutor's judge, Dane County Circuit Court Judge Josann M. Reynolds, appointed to the bench by Gov. Scott Walker (R) in 2015.

Carpenter traveled to Madison to a June 2020 Black Lives Matter protest for whom the drug warrior maintains an apparent hatred, and started a melee, where Carpenter took a beating that he highlighted over the next year, though he twice refused medical treatment that same night.

"I had no idea I had walked into a hornet's nest," claimed Carpenter to WTMJ, playing the victim in July 2020. "All of a sudden two women, white women, started coming towards me. I had three seconds to react." 

Carpenter insinuated two woman somehow hit him, but Carpenter admitted to police he cannot identity anyone as touching him.

Carpenter went on a rant after the June protests during which Carpenter 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.

Following the June protests, the racist Carpenter went apoplectic against a black woman running for State Senate, resulting in a multi-day rant that concluded with the intercession of the state Party Chair and the Senate Minority Leader criticizing Carpenter who eventually apologized, (The Capital Times). Carpenter said he was  "rash and reactionary" in his apology.

The reactionary Carpenter is renown in some circles for single-handedly blocking doctor-prescribed marijuana in 2009, the better the State has a weapon to imprison black and brown people in the drug war. Under heavy criticism, eight years later, Carpenter reversed his public stance, but the damage was done.
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Today, not even cops state O'Reilly can be identified as doing anything that night, a fact that did not stop the district attorney from charge-stacking.

Madison police detective Linda Trevarthen who led the investigation of the melee acknowledged that there is no evidence the O'Reilly specifically touched Carpenter in any way, much less a felony battery contact, (Rickert, Wisconsin State Journal).

Not one witness claims Kerida O’Reilly can be identified as so much as laying a finger on the precious state senator. No video evidence implicates O'Reilly.

Carpenter ridiculed Black Lives Matter, and in July 2020 said he's also "being criticized on the left in a blog suggesting he's somehow a traitor stating that he 'was against the liberators of the Black Lives Movement,'" (WTMJ), in an apparent reference to Mal Contends.

 Carpenter wants to get Black Lives Matter. So does the Dane County District Attorney. So merely being present at a protest is enough for a criminal prosecution.

Bowing to the ridiculous lack of evidence, "The two people charged with the beating of a state senator have been offered a deal by prosecutors that would include no jail time and deferred prosecution," WKOW-TV (Galli, Madison) reported last April.

No deal, we're innocent, replied O’Reilly. O'Reilly declined another deal last month that would have dropped all three criminal charges in exchange for the equivalent of a parking ticket. No deal, said O'Reilly.

Corrupt DA Changes Charging Standard in These Cases

In the instances of Kerida O’Reilly and Samantha Hamer, the District Attorney had dropped its charging standard in these cases from can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, (See, for example, WISC-TV 2018; Madison . com), to the much lower standard, (and newly employed as a charging standard):  Claimed reasonable inference.
 
At a probable cause hearing in August 2020, Asst DA William Brown, known for over-the-top prosecutions and Manichean court posturing, admitted, "We don’t know exactly what happens ...  other than we have a witness that says various people began kicking and punching. There is a reasonable inference that those two people who are aggressively running at him are the ones involved in the exact same incident," (Rickert, Wisconsin State Journal).

We don’t know exactly what happened? That's reasonable doubt.

Why the change for these cases? Because this is a political prosecution.

Tune in here for coverage beginning Oct 15.

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 sponsors a 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