Dramatic video shows a Black Lives Matter founder brawling with a female staffer who accused him of gambling away their funds — but didn’t press charges to avoid seeing “a black man in jail.”
Clyde McLemore, the executive director for Black Lives Matter in Lake County, Illinois, was seen fighting with project manager Nyesha Hill under a large BLM banner in the corridor of a Waukegan resource center, according to surveillance video shared by Lake and McHenry County Scanner.
It showed them flailing arms and grappling — with Hill mostly getting the upper hand against the group leader, who was wearing a BLM hoodie.
The female staffer twice managed to throw the executive director to the ground, easily keeping him pinned there as he squirmed around trying to get back to his feet.
The brawl was actually last October, but the footage only surfaced during a police investigation that was started in January to a call over an alleged battery, the outlet said.
The pair clashed after Hill charged into the office and demanded money and cigarettes while accusing the leader of using BLM funds for his gambling, according to a police report obtained by the outlet.
“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,’” she later told cops. “I’m the one that make this joint work.”
Both were left with lip injuries after scuffling but neither wanted to press charges against each other — with Hill telling officers she didn’t “want to see a black man in jail.”
McLemore has refused to comment on the altercations but obtained an emergency no-contact order, the report said.
