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| 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.
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| 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.
