Black Lives Matter Illinois Founder Beats His Female Employee After She Asks Him For Money, Accuses Him of Embezzling (VIDEO)
Illinois Black Lives Matter founder and executive director Clyde McLemore was captured on surveillance video involved in a physical altercation with a female employee at the BLM Resource Center in Waukegan.
The incident took place in January, but the surveillance footage—obtained by Lake and McHenry County Scanner—was released Tuesday.
Police were called to the BLM center on January 12 after receiving a report of a battery.
According to police, Clyde McLemore said an employee, identified as Nyesha Hill, approached him while he was working at his computer and asked him for money and cigarettes. McLemore told officers he responded that the organization “ain’t got no money,” explaining that he could not pay her because the grant funds were “gone.”
According to Lake and McHenry County Scanner, the founder of Black Lives Matter Lake County was recorded on video during a physical confrontation with the female worker inside the organization’s Waukegan office. The woman alleged that McLemore had been mishandling money from the organization.
The Waukegan Police Department responded at about 12:30 p.m. on January 12 to the Black Lives Matter Resource Center at 668 Lenox Avenue following a report of an unknown subject and a battery call.
A police report obtained by Lake and McHenry County Scanner said officers spoke with both Clyde J. McLemore and Nyesha A. Hill at the scene.
McLemore serves as the founder and executive director of the Black Lives Matter Lake County chapter and is also a member of the Lake County Regional Board of School Trustees.
According to the report, McLemore told officers he was in his office working on his computer when Hill—who works at the organization—entered and asked him for money and cigarettes.
Hill told officers that McLemore owed her money for work she had performed and accused him of embezzling grant funds.
“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,’” Hill told police.
Hill also told officers she did not want to press charges against McLemore because she “does not want to see a black man in jail.”
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