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 .)

State Sen Carpenter's Faked Collapse Will Not Hold up to Examination

Wisconsin State Sen Tim Carpenter claims to crowd he
supports Black Lives Matter, pointing out he once
shared a flight with Lt. Gov Mandela Barnes (D).

Updated - Madison, Wisconsin — A good day for Wisconsin State Sen Tim Carpenter (D).

News this week is two Black Lives Matter protesters are charged with multiple felonies following a late-night June 23 confrontation that Carpenter started, a long-time aim of the legislator championing prisons and police.

Should this affair go to trial, the narcissistic state senator will face close examination of his conduct that will not hold up under scrutiny. Carpenter has worked his whole legislative career mobilizing the war against drugs directed against people of color, so his work with police to imprison Black Lives Matter protesters is a coup for this racist state legislator. Carpenter claimed to a crowd on June 23 how much he supports Black Lives Matter, pointing out in his soliloquy that he once shared a flight to Turkey with Wisconsin Lt. Gov Mandela Barnes (D) who is black.

The crowd did not sound convinced. After his hollered conversation, Carpenter spoke with several protests medics and peacekeepers in an eight-minute  conversation captured on audio, (Pittman/WORT News).

Carpenter sits down for a rest after spotting WKOW-TV crew.

Carpenter voiced no medical complaints. A calm Carpenter can be heard reacting with sympathy to several protesters telling the senator that they had been shot at, and almost run-down on several occasions that night.

The conversation seemed agreeable at that point.

Carpenter did not phone 911 for medical help.

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.

• WTMJ - July 15 Still Recovering
• Fox News - June 30 - Recovering
• Spectrum News One - August 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, 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 is known around the capitol for his dislike of women, especially women of color. 

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.

Most likely this is because any defense attorney can win an acquittal against the charge-stacking facing two women against whom Carpenter holds a bias because of their gender and race solidarity.

Carpenter has given defense attorneys a lot of ammo.

A good guess is that this affair will end with restorative justice as Tim Carpenter's story is so full of holes, he cannot politically survive close examination of his conduct and his appalling record.

Democrat Party to Black Lives Matter: Drop Dead

Statues Outweigh People in Democrat Party

Madison, Wisconsin — In police-state America, police are just as destructive, and just as deadly as before the moment Minneapolis Police killed George Floyd in May.

The Spring-Summer seems a long time ago, doesn't it? Not to Jacob Blake.

Republicans and Democrats are unified in their defense of police as an institutional and violent check on black and brown people asserting their humanity.

Take Wisconsin. Not one Democratic legislator has introduced legislation on decarceration, decriminalization, police violence and police defunding. And there are no calls for these protections against police.

I can't think of another state more sorely in need of a police cleansing than Wisconsin. 

To be clear, police will kill you, will terrorize you, will ruin you financially, imprison you, and defame you. There are no limits, and Democrats will do nothing. 

Not even a letter to the local daily calling for defense of people against police.

A Milwaukee State Senator — the drug warrior and anti-Black Lives Matter Tim Carpenter (D-Milwaukee) — traveled to Madison in June 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.

The racist Carpenter then went on a political rampage against people of color.

He accosted and maligned a black candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for State Senate District 26 in Dane County, before being forced to issue a public apology in July.

Carpenter, a cop lover, co-sponsored a bill to expand the Wisconsin Criminal Code to criminalize any damage to statues, statues!, (not black people, open season remains).

The black candidate maligned by Carpenter, Nada Elmikashfi, objected to the proposed legislation and an enraged Carpenter became unhinged and went on a rant that Carpenter later described as "rash and reactionary."

Writes Elmikashfi on July 16, commenting on Carpenter's co-authorship of his Senate statue bill initiative:

"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 is known around the capitol for his dislike of women, especially women of color. 

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 Carpenter who eventually apologized, (The Capital Times).

At the June Black Lives Matter march, Carpenter faked a collapse in front of WKOW-TV at the capitol, and began his major media campaign demonizing Black Lives Matter. Not defending.

This fake collapse was preceded by Carpenter's hollered conversation, as the state senator spoke with several protests medics and peacekeepers in an eight-minute conversation captured on audio, (Pittman/WORT News), that shows Carpenter declining medical attention before faking his collapse.

Carpenter, who takes his antipathy towards black people to extremes, is nevertheless emblematic of the Democrat Party nationally.

Writes AOC yesterday:

.@AOC tells @jaketapper that "not a single member of Congress that I'm aware of campaigned on socialism or defunding the police in this general election."

She says Dems' problem is a weak party operation that needs to become "stronger and more resilient to Republican attacks."

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) November 9, 2020

Meanwhile, Carpenter and Dane County continue their ridiculous criminal pursuit of the 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. Carpenter says in Court he never saw the two women never even touch him at the June Black Lives Matter protest and yet he claims he knows they're guilty of Battery and wants them charged (they are charged), and convicted.

Hey, the two women are Black Lives Matter supporters so no evidence needed to convict, say Carpenter and his Democrat Party allies.

Legally, the cases of Black Lives Matter protesters Kerida O’Reilly and Samantha Hamer will blow up in the faces of the Democrat Party.

Politically and morally, we as a community have already lost because we did not do enough to stand up for these two brave women.

So, faced with a corrupt district attorney's office, a racist State Senator Tim Carpenter, and a supine Democrat Party, we as a community can protest, write, and alert the community that two more civil rights workers are about to suffer another injustice through the continuation of this ludicrous prosecution.

Kerida O’Reilly and Samantha Hamer attended a routine hearing last week. The cases have not been yet dismissed yet.

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
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I wrote District Attorney Ismael Ozanne an email on July 31. 

We cannot stay silent, no matter how many District Attorney Ismael Ozannes and Derek Chauvines stain an office of public trust.

The email is reproduced below:
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Ismael,

As a member of our community, I have followed with grave concern the cases of Kerida O’Reilly and Samantha Hamer.

I am aware that you do not know how, and by whom and with what force violence was inflicted in the confrontation among Tim Carpenter and depending on whom you believe — the police quote a journalist saying some ten people, you say two people — and those who may be criminally responsible.

Did these two women use their elbows, fists, feet, head, or blunt instruments? You have no idea, yet you are charging them with being party to substantial battery by undetermined persons, a "group," as Carpenter told police.

Are you satisfied with Carpenter's credibility?

Did you know Mr Carpenter did not request medical assistance after speaking with protest medic and peacekeepers, as indicated in audio published by WORT News.

Did you know that after a WKOW-TV crew member phoned 911, Carpenter declined to go to the hospital?

Have you checked out Carpenter's story and timeline of the evening of June 23 and early morning of June 24.

Have you viewed video of Carpenter's 'collapse' performed right in front of WKOW-TV?

Do you ascribe responsibility to Mses. O’Reilly and Hamer because they are convenient faces on a video?

Carpenter said he was attacked by a "group." Yet, you divine O’Reilly and Hamer?

I ask you to drop these bogus cases, and issue a public apology to Kerida O’Reilly and Samantha Hamer, and Black Lives Matter.

Mike

Michael Leon
Marketing and Public Relations Consultant
http://malcontends.blogspot.com/

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 Democrats Work Against Two Innocent Women; 'Shockingly Thin' Case Against Black Lives Matter Protesters Moves Forward

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

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.

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.

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.