Biden Hails Police in State of the Union, Fails to Mention Black Lives Matter

Joe Biden left no doubt where his commitments lie on the American police state: Police are good, Black Lives are bad.

This view predominates in Democrat politics at all levels of government, including Biden's stealth cop nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Biden mentioned the "police" eight times last night, all favorably at the State of the Union address.

That’s why the American Rescue Plan provided $350 Billion that cities, states, and counties can use to hire more police and invest in proven strategies like community violence interruption—trusted messengers breaking the cycle of violence and trauma and giving young people hope.  

We should all agree: The answer is not to Defund the police. The answer is to FUND the police with the resources and training they need to protect our communities.

This continues the work of Biden as the U.S. politician who has worked most over five decades to imprison more black and brown people than every single living elected representative. For a racist like Biden, the work to imprison makes him feel tough.

And Biden knows, few elected Democrats will object.

Biden: "We should all agree, the answer is not to defund the police. The answer is to fund the police. Fund them. Fund them!"

— Punchbowl News (@PunchbowlNews) March 2, 2022

Wisconsin Black Lives Matter Routs Democrat State Senator

State Sen. Tim Carpenter faked a collapse in front of WKOW-TV
at the Capitol, and then began his 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 his fake collapse.

Madison, Wisconsin — Not one Wisconsin elected Democrat stood up for Black Lives Matter and two innocent women pursued by an unhinged Democrat, State Sen. Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee).

Via Medium.

Black Lives Matter don’t really matter, not here.

And BLM liberation protesters enjoy no presumption of innocence when protesting police violence, not while the Democratic Party has power.

In massive demonstrations during the 2020 Summer supporting George Floyd and demanding police end their war against the community, human rights workers irked one State Sen. Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee) — a drug warrior and self-proclaimed “reactionary” Democrat.

Forget Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Kenosha, Madison police have it in for black folks, and Wisconsin Democrats back the police, diligently defend wrongful convictions, harassment, police and prosecutor misconduct, amid a permanent low-intensity war against the darkly complected.

It’s SOP in Wisconsin.

Tim Carpenter is the perfect Democrat, a narcissistic corporatist so self-involved and malicious he would embarrass Joe Biden.

Carpenter is renown in some circles for single-handedly blocking doctor-prescribed marijuana in 2009, the better the State has weapons to imprison black and brown people in the drug war.

So, it was no surprise that Carpenter drove to Madison in late June 2020 and started a melee against a couple of hundred protesters rallying next to the Capitol near Midnight during the height of the George Floyd protests.

Carpenter, (later claiming he was making a late-night Capitol visit on official business), grabbed his phone and started recording the BLM group, a provocative action to which the group took offense.

Protesters explained to Carpenter that rightwing doxxers were recording BLM rallies, increasing fear that night that someone was going to get hurt on a night during which the marchers had to contend with gun shots and cars trying to run the group down.

The melee ensued, after which Carpenter unconvincingly played the victim.

But the group was easy prey for Carpenter and his political campaign, backed by the police, the district attorney and corporate media.

After lecturing the crowd that he was an ally of Black Lives Matter, a laughable proposition, a traumatized Carpenter performed a collapse on the Capitol grounds in front of a WKOW-TV (Madison) crew.

Carpenter did not fall uncontrollably to the pavement; he gently set himself down to a sitting position and laid down on the soft manicured brush. The media dutifully reported he collapsed. It was a charade.

Before and after his performance, Carpenter refused medical treatment.

Carpenter then enlisted the Democrat Dane County District Attorney to press charges against someone, anyone, at the Capitol that night.

The DA picked two local socially conscious women with no criminal records, Black Lives Matter protesters Kerida O’Reilly and Samantha Hamer, whom even Carpenter and the police could not identify as so much as laying a finger on the precious state senator.

The two women were each charged with multiple felonies and a misdemeanor — felony crime of Substantial Battery with Intent to Cause Bodily Harm, felony Party to a Crime, and misdemeanor Disorderly Conduct.

Both women faced years in prison in a Court presided over by a Gov. Scott Walker appointee, Dane County Circuit Court Judge Josann M. Reynolds, (R) appointed to the bench in 2015.

Charge stacking like what was endured in these cases serves two purposes. One, to coerce innocent protesters into pleading no contest to charges of which they are innocent; and two, to deter protesting of unlawful police behavior in the streets.

The Democrat-led Dane County District Attorney’s office changed its charging standard for this one case to accommodate Carpenter and the paucity of evidence against the defendants. The conventional evidentiary standard for the Dane County DA is case can be proven to a reasonable doubt, changed to: Reasonable inference. [(See, for example, WISC-TV 2018; Madison . com).

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 [at the rally] … 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).

Judge Reynolds is corrupt against defendants’ rights, a status that draws few objections in Dane County.

At the prosecution’s behest, in early Sept 2021, Reynolds issued a radical ruling that compelled the appearance of three, then two area journalists covering the protests though none of these three could identity the defendants as touching Carpenter.

The rationale behind the forced Court appearance of journalists was to establish there was a large rally and ralliers were passionate.

Armed with the testimony that the rally was passionate, the prosecution argued in court that Ms. O’Reilly was passionate and near Carpenter, so it was reasonable to infer she assaulted Tim Carpenter.

Thus, we see the Wisconsin judiciary join the bad faith, logical fallacy and ill will on the part of the police and prosecutors who face little recrimination in this political culture wired to give these same police and prosecutors free reign.

After the two women were arrested, Carpenter went on a public relations spree to demonize Black Lives Matter; sponsored a bill to criminalize damaging statutes out of Carpenter’s spite; and accosted and harassed a black candidate for the State Senate, before being forced to apologize after the intercession of the state Democratic Party Chair and the Senate Minority Leader criticizing Carpenter, (The Capital Times, WTMJ — July, Fox News — June 30, Spectrum News One — Aug).

Carpenter was unhinged and petulant.

That the two women were not implicated by any direct evidence was of no apparent concern to Carpenter, the police, and the media who toed the police line all the way.

Bowing to the ridiculous lack of evidence, the DA in April 2021, offered a deal that featured no jail time and a deferred prosecution, that would have wiped the protesters’ record clean, WKOW-TV, (Galli).

No deal, we’re innocent, replied O’Reilly and Hamer.

O’Reilly declined another deal last month that would have dropped all three criminal charges in exchange for pleading no contest to the equivalent of a parking ticket. No deal, said O’Reilly.

BLM protester Samantha Hamer took the deal, fearing she was gambling her life on the whims of a jury.

On Oct. 19, after a two-day trial, the jury verdict was delivered to the remaining defendant: O’Reilly: Not guilty on all counts. The jury deliberated for just three hours.

This was an are-you-kidding verdict, but the resultant local coverage, with the exception of Tony Galli and Peter Culver at WKOW, barely mentioned the verdict.

Instead, overwhelmingly, the not-guilty local coverage is a rehash of the accusations, omitting entirely the fact noone saw the two women touch Tim Carpenter.

O’Reilly told WKOW that she will continue to support Black Lives Matter.

O’Reilly said she also felt relief that the truth came out. She was scared.

“I did not make physical contact with him, [Carpenter],” Kerida O’Reilly testified at trial, a statement even Tim Carpenter was forced to acknowledge in the face of aggressive questioning by defense attorney, Jessa Nicholson Goetz.

So, why this bogus prosecution? Because police and prosecutors want to.
That’s it.

Police face no recrimination for their arrest of the Black Lives Matter protesters. The DA faces no consequences, and Tim Carpenter, beyond burnishing his reputation as an asshole, faces no backlash from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

Tim Carpenter is running for reelection in 2022. Progressive and pro-Black Lives Matter forces want a candidate to run against him in the Democratic Primary.

But Wisconsin also needs DAs and a criminal justice system that function as a check for deceitful politicians, and guard the rights of citizens against these same politicians and police who pose a threat to a peaceful community.
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(Michael Leon is a writer living in Madison, Wisconsin. His stories have appeared nationally in The Progressive, In These Times and CounterPunch. He can be reached at: malleon @ live.com .)

Not Guilty — State Senator's Racist Crusade Against Black Lives Matter Beaten Back

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 his fake collapse.

Carpenter Faces Tough Campaign for Reelection in 2022

Madison, Wisconsin — Wisconsin State Sen Tim Carpenter's (D-Milwaukee) crusade against Black Lives Matter suffered a big set-back today, Tuesday. Oct 19.

Not guilty on all counts, a Dane County jury said to a Black Lives Matter protester on trial against a racist state senator who calls himself "rash and reactionary" for his conduct against another Black Lives Matter supporter.

"I did not make physical contact with him," Kerida O'Reilly testified, a statement even Carpenter was forced to acknowledge in the face of aggressive questioning by defense attorney, Jessa Nicholson Goetz.

Ms. O'Reilly faced 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 was charging the woman for no acts they can identify her as committing.

The racist Tim Carpenter is running for reelection in 2022. Progressive and pro-Black Lives Matter candidates want a candidate to run in the Democratic Primary.

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.

Though Carpenter admits to being rash and reactionary, progressives view the white Democrat as petulant, conniving, narcissistic and wedded to an outdated anti-drug era.

O'Reilly testified to Carpenter as an angry, aggressive presence at the Black Lives Matter rally, Galli/WKOW.

The Democrat-led Dane County District Attorney's office changed its charging standard for this one case to accommodate Carpenter and the paucity of evidence against the defendants.

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).

No deal, said the jury, which took just three hours to deliver its not guilty verdict.

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

Plea Change from Innocent to No Contest in Tim Carpenter Trial

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.

Madison, Wisconsin — One of two Black Lives Matter workers accused — with no direct evidence — of having been in a fight with a racist state senator during protests over deadly police violence in 2020 pleaded no contest this week to a vastly reduced non-criminal citation charge.

The plea highlights a brutal part of the criminal justice system where prosecutors charge-stack felonies and force innocent defendants to either gamble with a trial and years in prison or cop a plea to a reduced charge with the promise of erasure from the defendant's record.

"Samantha Hamer, 27, of Madison, does not face any jail time or fines as a result of her plea to disorderly conduct, a county ordinance violation, but will have to pay court costs that are to be determined. The ordinance violation is akin to a ticket and is not a criminal conviction," reports the Wisconsin State Journal.

The plea marks a change from last April when Ms. Hamer refused a different plea offer, while affirmatively acclaiming her innocence.

The state senator involved in the melee is Tim Carpenter, a controversial and reactionary Milwaukee Democrat.

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.

Reynolds is corrupt against the rights of defendants, a status that draws few objections in Dane County.

Reynolds has already issued one radical ruling in this case that compels the appearance of three area journalists covering the Black Lives Matters protests though none of these three can identity the remaining defendant as even touching Carpenter.

Tim Carpenter

After the melee at the protest that Carpenter instigated, he is heard in a recorded conversation sounding agreeable.

Carpenter did not phone 911 for medical help, after he was asked by a medic.

Then, Carpenter walked to his car, spotted WKOW-TV crew members, walked towards the TV crew, and performed an unconvincing 'collapse' in an apparent bid for the TV station's attention.

Carpenter did not fall uncontrollably on the pavement. He gently set himself down to a sitting position, and then laid softly in the comparatively soft decorative brush on the ground next to the sidewalk and WKOW staff.

Carpenter then began a four-week media blitz dramatizing his victimhood.

• WTMJ - July 15 -Still Recovering
• Fox News - June 30 - Recovering
• Spectrum News One - Aug 12 - Opening up about Attack
  
  

While Carpenter tended to his I-hate-Black-Lives-Matter crusade, the veteran racist then signed on to a bill criminalizing defacing of statutes, making the protesters' point that this guy cares more about statutes than black lives.

Nothing from Carpenter about decarceration, decriminalization, police violence and police defunding.

But Carpenter was not finished.

Nada Elmikashfi 

Nada Elmikashfi is a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for State Senate District 26 in Dane County.

Elmikashfi criticized Carpenter's proposal to make criminal felons out of anyone defacing a statue, an initiative echoing Donald Trump's protect-the-statues crusade. 

Writes Elmikashfi on July 16, 2020 commenting on Carpenter's co-authorship of his Senate initiative seeking sponsors.

"Get me in the senate so I can block this absolute bullshit. You shouldn’t have been assaulted Senator Carpenter; but that doesn’t mean you get to block our civil rights movement. If this is passed on a bipartisan basis; @GovEvers needs to veto it. #BlackLivesMatter."

Carpenter went apoplectic, resulting in a multi-day rant that concluded with the intercession of the state Party Chair and the Senate Minority Leader criticizing the unhinged Carpenter who eventually apologized.

Reports The Capital Times:

Wisconsin's Democratic leaders are denouncing 'online bullying' perpetrated by Sen. Tim Carpenter, D-Milwaukee, after he targeted Madison Senate candidate Nada Elmikashfi in a flurry of Twitter posts over the last few days that eventually led to the brief suspension of his account for harassment.

Both the state Democratic Party and Senate Minority Leader Janet Bewley decried Carpenter's actions in statements Monday morning, noting the Milwaukee senator's behavior 'crossed the line.'

'Nobody should be subjected to online bullying, which disproportionately harms women and people of color — not during this moment of long-overdue reckoning with racial justice, and not ever,' party officials wrote in their statement.

Carpenter is silent now.

As is the district attorney's office which has not even attempted to explain why it feels justified in charging two women with no criminal records with multiple felonies for non-specific acts that merit a non-criminal citation.

But local media typically does not ask this sort of question.

Wisconsin Fall Trials Show Liberal Police State Feasting on Innocents in Community

Two Black Lives Matter protesters are charged with multiple felonies
following a late-night June 2020 confrontation that State Sen Tim
Carpenter started in Madison, Wisconsin. Now, the racist state
senator wants to realize his long-term aim: Imprisoning black
people and those supporting them.

Disgraced State Senator Is Center of Political Prosecution Against Black Lives Matter

Madison, Wisconsin — Two state criminal trials this Fall exemplify the political-legal terrain in Wisconsin: A police state run by Democrats statewide, rightwing district attorneys of both parties and a corrupt judiciary.

Wisconsin State Sen Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee) knew his duty before a June 2020 Midnight visit to the Capitol in the middle of the George Floyd protests here: Carpenter must confront and demonize Black Lives Matter protesters.

Much of the civilized country had decided otherwise after the horror of the George Floyd murder.

But the racist Carpenter (D-Milwaukee) continues his crusade against Black Lives Matter in Dane County Court in October in two criminal trials — Kerida O’Reilly (jury selection and trial begin Oct 15), and Samantha Hamer, (jury selection and trial begin Oct 15).

Black Lives Matter protesters, Mses. O’Reilly and Hamer, are two socially conscious area women with no criminal records.

They stand accused of felony crimes of Substantial Battery with Intent to Cause Bodily Harm, felony Party to a Crime, and misdemeanor Disorderly Conduct against Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee) for no specific action at a June 23-24 Black Lives Matter protest. It bears repeating: The State is charging the women for no acts they can identified as committing.

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.

In 2020, 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.

But not even cops state O'Reilly and Hamer 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 women specifically touched Carpenter in any way, much less a felony battery contact, (Rickert, Wisconsin State Journal).

Not one witness claims Kerida O’Reilly and Samantha Hamer can be identified as committing so much as laying a finger on the precious state senator.

But 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 and Hamer.

Corrupt DA Changes Charging Standard in These Cases

In the instances of Kerida O’Reilly and Samantha Hamer, the District Attorney has 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).

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

So, in the District Attorney's new theory of criminal guilt, running is a crime. Problem is running, in the real world, is not a crime.

As one of the victims of the melee instigated by Carpenter, Carpenter swears he cannot identify either of the defendants as laying a finger on him. Neither does any video. So, there is as much evidence for Carpenter being a violent felon as anyone else.

The district attorney's office has decided not to test the credibility of Tim Carpenter whose conduct before, the night of, and after the confrontation is bizarre, including his hostile online attack against a black woman running for state senate, an affair for which Carpenter was forced to apologize in July, just a few weeks after Carpenter's melee.

Charge-Stacking

The Dane County District Attorney loves to charge-stack, an authoritarian practice utilized across the country. Corrupt District Attorneys will pile on charges to induce a situation in which an innocent defendants face losing years of their lives or make a false plea of guilty.

Not surprisingly, Black Lives Matter protesters Kerida O’Reilly and Samantha Hamer, two socially conscious area women with no criminal records, stand accused of the felony crime of Substantial Battery with Intent to Cause Bodily Harm, felony Party to a Crime, and misdemeanor Disorderly Conduct against State Sen. Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee) for no specific action at a June 23-24 Black Lives Matter protest.

Targeting the Press

In Sept 2021, earlier this month, the D.A.'s office issued three subpoenas against area journalists, though again not one of the journalist can identify Mses. O’Reilly or Hamer as laying a finger on Carpenter.

So, all the DA has is some eight to 10 people during a chaotic melee, and other community members present.

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 state senator spoke with several protest medics and
peacekeepers in an eight-minute conversation captured on audio,
(Pittman/WORT News), that shows Carpenter declining medical
attention before faking his collapse, but after spotting WKOW-TV.

Carpenter traveled to Madison in June 2020 to confront Black Lives Matter liberation protestors, worked to record and virtually deliver the liberation workers to rightwing doxxers, was confronted by marchers and after a melee, embarked on a mission to imprison as many Black Lives Matter workers as possible.

White supremacists have doxxed, (publish private or identifying information about a particular individual on the Internet, typically with malicious intent), and endangered liberation protesters across the country, so folks were nervous that late June night, perfect prey for Carpenter looking for attention.

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.' Carpenter didn't fall down uncontrollably, he performed an easy set-down in front of WKOW-TV to dramatize the confrontation that he began.

The credibility of Carpenter is on trial as two women standing up for Black people face the worst of the Wisconsin criminal justice system and the Democratic Party.

RFK Speaks Today

The effort made today. RFK warned about the danger of
timid bystanders on June 6, 1966. Said Kennedy:
"And everyone here will ultimately be judged
— will ultimately judge himself —
on the effort he has contributed to building a new
world society and the extent to which his ideals
and goals have shaped that effort."
Day of Affirmation Address (News Release Version),
University of Capetown, Capetown, South Africa,
June 6, 1966.
Pictured above is national rally for peace;
Washington D.C., October 2003

Stop destroying lives

"We learn, at the last, to look at our brothers as aliens, men with whom we share a city, but not a community, men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in common effort. We learn to share only a common fear - only a common desire to retreat from each other - only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force," said RFK on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of King.

What would Robert Kennedy say today?

RFK would be appalled by the police-prosecutor-prison state that destroys lives, life after life, family after family, at a police force that seems to regard people roughly as they would inspect a beaker of urine.

Absent a radical new project on the role of the police and an evaluation of the structures of our society, more American human beings will be lost.

A new generation is carrying the torch for humanity: Black Lives Matter.

We should listen, to them and voices from history.

ROBERT KENNEDY'S CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND SPEECH, 1968. On April 5, 1968, one day after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Senator Robert F. Kennedy delivered a speech entitled "On the Mindless Menace of Violence" at the CITY CLUB OF CLEVELAND. In the 10-minute speech Kennedy deplored violence in American society. "This is a time of shame and sorrow," he told the hushed audience. Just two months later, Kennedy himself would be assassinated.

Robert F. Kennedy
Cleveland City Club
April 5, 1968

This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity to speak briefly to you about this mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives.

It is not the concern of any one race. The victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are, most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed. No one - no matter where he lives or what he does - can be certain who will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed. And yet it goes on and on.

Why? What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by his assassin's bullet.

No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people.

Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

"Among free men," said Abraham Lincoln, “there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and those who take such appeal are sure to lose their cause and pay the costs."

Yet we seemingly tolerate a rising level of violence that ignores our common humanity and our claims to civilization alike. We calmly accept newspaper reports of civilian slaughter in far off lands. We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment. We make it easy for men of all shades of sanity to acquire weapons and ammunition they desire.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach nonviolence abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them.

Some looks for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear; violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleaning of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.

This is the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men. And this too afflicts us all. I have not come here to propose a set of specific remedies nor is there a single set. For a broad and adequate outline we know what must be done. When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies - to be met not with cooperation but with conquest, to be subjugated and mastered.

We learn, at the last, to look at our brothers as aliens, men with whom we share a city, but not a community, men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in common effort. We learn to share only a common fear - only a common desire to retreat from each other - only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force. For all this there are no final answers.

Yet we know what we must do. It is to achieve true justice among our fellow citizens. The question is now what programs we should seek to enact. The question is whether we can find in our own midst and in our own hearts that leadership of human purpose that will recognize the terrible truths of our existence.

We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of all. We must admit in ourselves that our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others. We must recognize that this short life can neither be ennobled or enriched by hatred or revenge.

Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land. Of course we cannot vanish it with a program, nor with a resolution.

But we can perhaps remember - even if only for a time - that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short movement of life, that they seek - as we do - nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can.

Surely this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our hearts brothers and countrymen once again.

Democrats' New Party Slogan Should Be "Deterring Democracy"

Madison, Wisconsin — The Democratic Party has an urgent problem: How to appear to address racism without doing anything to upset American oligarchy, and its deadly police-prosecutor-prison state.

If you are a Democrat, you need not be concerned.

Democrats are the heavyweight champs of doing nothing as the Party virtue-signals, deploys Clintonite media mascots — Zerlina Maxwell, Neera Tanden, Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow, for example, — and takes a deep dive into identity politics with Joe Biden leading the ticket.

Take Wisconsin Democrats.

There's State Sen. Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee), who described himself as rash and reactionary, co-sponsoring legislation to protect statues, and pressing trumped-up criminal charges against two Black Lives Matter protesters whom Carpenter admits are innocent. 

There's the successful state Democratic effort to kick the Green Party off the Wisconsin ballot as Rachel Maddow and local media suggest civil rights and the First Amendment have no force because Dems perceive the Green Party as a "scam," to use Maddow's description. 

Not one state Democrat dissented from this anti-democratic action toward the Greens, and the outlandish and narcissistic defamation of the Greens by Rachel Maddow.

In Wisconsin's leading Democratic newspaper, there's a piece this morning on the police-by-proxy phenomenon. But the story immediately falls into the identity politics-bias pit dooming understanding beyond a politically correct analysis that falsely pretends to a new and incisive understanding of human nature.

Statues, People and the Democratic National Convention

Madison, Wisconsin — This site will include reporting, analysis and commentary on the public crucifixion and state prosecution of two women who attended a Black Lives Matter protest in Madison in June, and an unusually fetid state senator, Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee), who pursues black people and their allies with a fanaticism that would make Joe McCarthy blush with shame.

That this Wisconsin pursuit of human beings by Democrats, for Democrats continues during the Democratic National Convention at the expense of our country's greatest liberation movement in 50 years ought at least to draw attention to the paucity of evidence in these criminal cases.

Amid this massive liberation movement for black lives, the Wisconsin legislature has acted swiftly and surely in a bipartisan fashion to protect ... statues. Naturally, Tim Carpenter is front-and-center in this pursuit while reminding the world that he knows some black people who are among his friends and mentors. 

I wonder which mentor taught Carpenter to consider why statutes are more important than black lives.

Carpenter exemplifies how much the Democratic Party has become the national security, law enforcement Party.

Democrats love the idea of state oppression of anyone holding to views, such as Black Lives Matter, that are unorthodox to the Party consensus.

Bear this in mind when Party talk against Trump continues this week at the Convention.

Principled political work and reasoned commitment on presidential power, police violence and the national security state will not emit from the Democratic Party.

Rewriting the limits of presidential powers https://t.co/QrJZsV6snx pic.twitter.com/4IiFcIbNVd

— CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 (@CBSSunday) August 16, 2020

Reset The Clock

It has been 0 days since the last Police Brutality incident.

"Chicago PD assault protestors, beat them with clubs, slam bikes against them to pin them to the wall."#PoliceBrutality #Chicago #ChicagoProtests pic.twitter.com/0pLNFR4zIw

— Police Brutality Tracker Bot (@CopsRBad) August 16, 2020

The Democratic establishment mind and the neocon mind are completely merged in every meaningful respect.

Just ponder how monumentally stupid *and* unhinged one has to be to believe that PUTIN is behind Trump's considering of a pardon of Snowden. It's just a mass pathology:🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺 https://t.co/K6XxQ8e0qi pic.twitter.com/eEbvz68reO

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 16, 2020

State Sen Tries Case Against Black Lives Matter Defendants in Media

Prosecution Protects Tim Carpenter's Problem with POC and Women

Madison, Wisconsin — State Sen Tim Carpenter (D-Miluwakee) is rash and reactionary, and that's what he says about himself.

A development in Carpenter's ongoing battle against people of color and women signals a problem for the racist Wisconsin legislator and the Dane County District Attorney's office.

"[Madison Police] have not released any surveillance camera images, as they did in other recent cases that led to arrests in the June 24 attack on state Sen. Tim Carpenter, D-Milwaukee," reports the Wisconsin State Journal. 

The is significant because Carpenter's crusade against Black Lives Matter, most recently in SpectrumNews1 in an August piece, is necessary to buttress an outlandish case against two women whom Carpenter accuses of substantial battery.

Carpenter has worked his entire legislative career mobilizing the war on drugs against people of color, presaging his confrontation at a late-night Black Lives Matter Madison protest in June, an affair in which Carpenter is using police to take the side of white supremacists who routinely dox liberation protesters.

Carpenter claims several people attacked him, but also notes he cannot identify any of his alleged assailants.

That's right, the alleged victim, Carpenter, cannot identify the defendants as touching him.

No eyewitness has identified the accused as laying a hand on Carpenter. Madison police detective Linda Trevarthen confirmed these facts at an August hearing, (Rickert,  Wisconsin State Journal).

And to this date, no video exists has been made public showing the accused as laying a hand on Carpenter, reports the Wisconsin State Journal.

So, why is the Dane County district attorney trying this case?

Because this is a political prosecution; no evidence is required.

Apparently, the district attorney's office has decided not to test the credibility of Tim Carpenter whose conduct before, the night of, and after the confrontation is bizarre, including his hostile online attack against a black woman running for state senate, an affair for which Carpenter was forced to apologize in July.

My full statement after conversation with both @SenBewley and @benwikler. They both recognise the work that has yet to be done within the Democratic Senate caucus and the Democratic Party. pic.twitter.com/VVLNVB7Es2

— Nada Elmikashfi (@nadaelmikashfi) July 20, 2020

Nobody should be subjected to online bullying, and Sen. Carpenter’s actions with regards to Nada Elmikashfi on Saturday night crossed the line. Statement from @wisdems chair @benwikler: https://t.co/dcKTmhtGJX pic.twitter.com/pmBGyTorq5

— Wisconsin Democrats (@WisDems) July 20, 2020

@nada4wisconsin @SenBewley @WisDems pic.twitter.com/yQ2MLPAl4v

— Tim Carpenter (@TimCarpenterMKE) July 20, 2020

Stay tuned, because I do not believe this case will be tried. No date for trial has been set.