Illinois Black Lives Matter founder and executive director Clyde McLemore was caught on video beating a female employee at the BLM Resource Center in Waukegan.
The violent incident occurred in January, but the surveillance video of the fight, obtained by Lake and McHenry County Scanner, was released on Tuesday.
Police were dispatched to the BLM center on January 12 after receiving a battery call.
Clyde McLemore told police that an employee, identified as Nyesha Hill, approached him while he was at his computer and asked him for money and cigarettes.
McLemore told officers that he informed Hill that his organization “ain’t got no money,” so he couldn’t pay her because the [grant] money is “gone.”
Per Lake and McHenry County Scanner:
The founder of Black Lives Matter Lake County was caught on video engaging in a physical fight at his Waukegan office with a female worker, who alleges that he has been mishandling money from the organization.