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Wisconsin's BLM under surveillance | Isiah Holmes

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🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Journalist Isiah Holmes on his article "How Kenosha PD and the FBI received Wisconsin’s BLM protester list" for the Wisconsin Examiner. https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2021/11/10/how-kenosha-pd-and-the-fbi-received-wisconsins-blm-protester-list/

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0:00.0

Nice segue.

0:05.0

Thank you, Rich. I'm thinking back. This is hell. Okay, Okay. Live from late capitalism where property has more rights than people.

0:39.0

This is hell.

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Let's say you have never... This is hell.

0:42.8

Let's say you have never, ever been convicted of a crime.

0:47.2

Let's go even further and say you've never even been charged

0:51.2

with any crime, even a misdemeanor. You have a thoroughly clean, spotless record and

0:57.9

for whatever reason have never even had an interaction with a cop in your entire life. That's how squeaky clean you are.

1:07.0

Let's add on that you have never been politically active, having never gone to a political protest in your life.

1:15.0

Then May 25, 2020 comes along and George Floyd is murdered by Minneapolis police.

1:21.0

Once you see the video of Floyd pleading, begging for his life, saying I can't breathe

1:26.8

over 20 times, and his eventual death.

1:32.6

You snap.

1:33.6

Suddenly your view of police and policing changes and you go to social media to vent your anger.

1:38.9

You even find and join social media groups that share your displeasure with abusive

1:43.7

law enforcement especially what seems to be systemic abuse of people of

1:49.0

color. Within these groups there are calls for protests against police and you post that you plan to attend.

1:58.0

Throughout the summer of 2020 you post your criticisms of police, you share comments and groups that organize protests,

2:05.3

but you never actually seem to make it to any of the protests.

2:10.0

Well, if you live in southeastern Wisconsin, your thoroughly clean rap sheet has not kept you from having

2:18.8

an FBI file for your online activities critical of police and supportive of protesters.

2:24.4

And not just any FBI file, but a likely permanent record as once you are in the

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