A local Black Lives Matter faction founder in Illinois was caught on surveillance camera brutally beating a woman back in October.
Clyde McLemore, the founder of Black Lives Matter Lake County, was seen on surveillance footage from the Black Lives Matter Resource Center assaulting a woman identified as Nyesha A. Hill.
Watch surveillance footage of the fight below (*Graphic content):
HOLY SMOKES. Black Lives Matter Illinois founder Clyde McLemore exposed on video MERCILESSLY BEATING one of his female employees
This same employee caught him embezzling grant funds
THIS IS BLM!
It’s run by TRASH and is a CRIMINAL organization.pic.twitter.com/yIr1b3nnDJ
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 3, 2026
The two got into a fight again three months later.
When the Waukegan Police Department arrived on scene at approximately 12:30 pm on Jan. 12, McLemore told them one story, while Hill told them another.
According to the Kenosha County Eye, McLemore told the police that Hill, whom he identified as one of his workers, entered his office asking for money and cigarettes, prompting him to tell her to leave. When she refused, he tried to leave himself but she attacked.
“Police observed a scratch on McLemore’s forehead and lip and noted that the office appeared disheveled, consistent with a physical struggle,” according to the County Eye.
Hill, meanwhile, claimed she’d been working on a project for McLemore’s organization and that he’d become angry and physical when she’d asked about payment for her work.
“Officers observed that she had a small cut on her lip and several broken fingernails, which were captured on body-worn camera footage,” the County Eye notes.
The conflicting accounts can be heard below:
(Video Credit: Kenosha County Eye)
“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,'” Hill said in the bodycam footage above. “I’m the one that make this joint work.”
She also admitted that she’d refused to leave until McLemore paid her, but she maintained that she didn’t want to press charges because she didn’t want to see a black man in jail.
A police report reviewed by the Lake and McHenry County Scanner shows that she also told police that McLemore had been wasting BLM money on “girls” and gambling.
The police ultimately made no arrests and filed no charges on account of the differing stories.
“Officers told Hill and McLemore not to have contact with each other and informed them of how to obtain an order of protection,” the Scanner notes.
Court records reviewed by the Scanner show that McLemore later requested an emergency stalking no-contact order against Hill.
McLemore and Hill reportedly BOTH have histories of bad behavior.
“McLemore has previously been arrested for trespassing at a Waukegan City Council meeting in October 2022 and participating in civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in February 2021,” according to the Scanner.
“Hill also has a criminal history, including being charged in a kidnapping with an accomplice, where they beat the victim in Zion and demanded ransom for his release in June 2020. She was sentenced to over four years in prison in the case,” the Scanner further notes.
Critics, meanwhile, responded by trashing BLM, an organization with a shoddy track record of its own:
This should come as no surprise. BLM was a movement based on violence to begin with.
— & (@phantom247) March 3, 2026
does any grant money actually go toward any of the actual causes it’s distributed for at this point?
— Navinder (@morris11183) March 3, 2026
Equal partners in a crime, BLM was a hoax and a money grabbing idea and now the truth is spilling out, As an old saying, “ You can Run but cannot Hide”, this is coming out
— Satendra Sharma (@islanderp27) March 4, 2026
Unbelievable… some people use movements to hide their own crimes. If this is true, no cause, no message, nothing excuses domestic abuse and embezzlement. Total betrayal of trust.
— ⁴⁶♟️••• (@MrIncrediBleHt_) March 3, 2026
Founding a movement for justice just to get caught embezzling the funds and fighting the staff is a level of “doing the most” that nobody asked for. Talk about a full-circle moment for all the wrong reasons.
— Osayamen Eghide (@osasboy007) March 3, 2026
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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