Viral Video Shows BLM Leader Throw Down With Female Colleague

The following is an edited transcript excerpt of The Michael Knowles Show.

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A BLM chapter founder has just gone viral for getting into a brawl with his female colleague.

Clyde McLemore, the executive director of BLM in Lake County, Illinois, got into a physical altercation with Nyesha Hill. It took place in a hallway, underneath the BLM banner. It’s like it was staged. According to reports, the pair — allegedly, reportedly — clashed after Hill walked into the office and demanded money from McLemore for cigarettes.

You can’t make this up. If you turned this script into Hollywood, they’d say it’s too on the nose.

She goes into the BLM office, which is supposed to be about social justice and defending the rights of oppressed black people, and she says: “Yeah, give me some of that BLM money. I want to go buy some menthols. I want to go buy some unfiltered Newports.”

And he says he’s not going to give her the money. She says this is crazy — you’ve been blowing the BLM money not on social justice or helping people, but on gambling.

Then they start punching each other.

BREAKING: Black Lives Matter founder in IL, Clyde McLemore caught beating his female employee

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According to this woman’s report to police, she said, “I told him, ‘It’s not fair that I come here and I work and you running around taking care of other things that don’t got nothing to do with Black Lives Matter with Black Lives Matter money. I’m the one that make this joint work.”

She says she makes it work, and he’s running around spending the money on things that have nothing to do with BLM. At least she wants to buy cigarettes. Plenty of black people smoke cigarettes. Come on — she says she makes it work.

Now, I guess we’d have to define what “work” is. What work is actually being done here? What does BLM do?

Even the national leaders and founders of BLM spent the money buying themselves beautiful homes in Southern California. What is the work here?

The work is going out in the streets, protesting, agitating, rioting, in some cases, looting stores, stealing merchandise, and pressuring corporations and government institutions for money. Then the money ends up being used on things like cigarettes or gambling.

And in this case, the argument from the woman was that at least the money should go to something like cigarettes rather than gambling.

Then there’s the final twist: both of them ended up with lip injuries after punching each other, but neither wanted to press charges.

Why?

The woman told officers she didn’t want to see a black man go to jail.

And people like Mitt Romney marched with these groups at one point. Some people posted black squares on social media or donated money, believing they were supporting a movement for justice.

The smart BLM leaders used the money for personal purchases like homes, while local disputes like this one were happening inside chapters.