Remember that "innocent, peaceful" BLM protester whose federal arrest was the impetus for the violent riots in Wisconsin? It resulted in statues torn done, businesses looted/burned, and even a state senator beaten. We are now learning the truth.
He was top BLM "muscle" sent into Wisconsin with his team to extort businesses. He and his team would go to those businesses that claim to support BLM to avoid trouble (that is, trying to be "grey"). Here is how one business owner described their approach:
The owner told him that he supports the Black Lives Matter movement to which Johnson replied, according to court documents, “What have you done locally?” He said he'd start breaking windows if he didn't get money and accused the owner and his employees of being members of the Ku Klux Klan. The owner told police he was afraid protesters would target his business because he didn't give Johnson what he wanted.
Johnson allegedly returned twice to the tavern on Tuesday, at one point joined by two other men. He shouted allegations of racism through a megaphone and swung a bat, according to the affidavit. One of the men had a bat with “Black Lives Matter” written on it.
“Just give us some free food and beer and we can end this now,” Johnson said, according to the affidavit. “You don't want 600 people to come here and destroy your business and burn it down. The cops are on our side. You notice that when you call them, nothing happens to us.”This type of extortion went on for weeks with many businesses. It only ended when he attacked a mother and her children with a baseball back for the crime of praying a rosary in the park.
The whole mess started when Johnson, a felon on probation, allegedly accosted a suburban Dane County Catholic mother of four as she prayed the Rosary with her children on the western corner of the Capitol Square. “He had the bat over his shoulder and then it slung down. I just knew he was going to get us,” said the woman, who asked not to be identified by name for fear of reprisal. “He was yelling that he knew I was rich because I was a … b*tch. It had nothing to do with skin. He didn’t yell anything about skin (color). He yelled about praying, he yelled that I was fat, that I was rich. It was crazy.”
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The woman said Johnson yelled something along the lines of “don’t think your God’s going to save you”Police said Johnson then accosted patrons on the patio of The Cooper Tavern, 20 W. Mifflin St. Video released by the Madison Police Department shows a young black man with a bat and bullhorn follow a white man into the tavern, shouting that the white man was a racist. Inside the establishment, the man identified as Johnson shouted into the bullhorn about religion and how the Civil War was fought “to see who gonna control the ni**ers.”
We’re going to talk about this Jesus guy,” the man yelled while looking directly at someone filming the incident. “Jesus was not a white man with blond hair, blue eyes and pink lips.” That was an apparent reference to prominent Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King, who said earlier this week that artistic depictions of Christ as a white man should be torn down.Background articles:
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/wisconsin-dem-lawmaker-brutally-beaten-by-protesters/Wisconsin Dem Lawmaker Brutally Beaten by Protestershttps://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/06/24/madisons-days-of-rage/Madison’s Days of RageArrest of black activist who allegedly accosted a Rosary-praying mother of four and restaurant patrons sparks riots, firebomb, and criminal damage to statues in the downtown of Wisconsin’s capital.url]https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wisconsin-man-triggered-protest-charged-extortion-71484903[/url]
Wisconsin man who triggered protest charged with extortion
Federal prosecutors have charged a Black man whose arrest triggered a violent protest in Wisconsin's capital city with extorting local businessesurl]https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/06/27/blm-activist-faces-federal-extortion-charges-in-madison-wi/[/url]
BLM activist faces federal extortion charges in Madison, WI
