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Frank Nitty Arrested by Milwaukee Police After Sexual Assault Claim

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Frank Nitty, the city’s most prominent Black Lives Matter activist, was arrested by Milwaukee police, and a video he posted and police sources say the accusation involves an alleged sexual assault.

“Police knocked on my door, and said I sexually assaulted this young lady,” Nitty says in the Nov. 16 video. He denies the allegations, calling them “bullsh*t” on video and claiming he has text messages that will exonerate him. Nitty claims the woman’s motive is because he asked her to return a rental car. He says he told her that police would be called if she didn’t return it and that she then made the accusation against him.

Nitty has now been booked in the Milwaukee County Jail but has not yet been charged. Here’s his mugshot:

Frank nitty
Frank nitty mugshot.

People are posting “Free Frank Nitty” graphics on Facebook as word spreads. Vaun Mayes, another BLM activist in Milwaukee, wrote on Facebook, “Listen here. U can support Frank Nitty II if u feel so moved to. But do NOT threaten the accuser.. We ain’t doing that. That ain’t gon help Frank, nor this movement. I hope bro learns from this. Like SERIOUSLY. OAN, Damn Cino 😳”

Frank nitty sexual assault

The BLM activist’s real name is Frank Sensabaugh. An associate of Nitty was also taken into custody as police were about to put Nitty into a squad car, video shows. The screenshot on the top right of this story shows the associate’s arrest; the screenshot on the left shows Nitty being taken into custody. Nitty was cooperative with police, the video shows.

Suddenly, you hear a commotion slightly off camera. “Why you still walking up on me. He’s touching me,” someone who is not Nitty says. You then see Nitty’s associate taken to the ground by multiple cops and people start screaming.

The specific details of the allegations are not clear, but they involve a woman Nitty gave a place to stay after she participated in one of his marches, he says in the video. Milwaukee police PR declined to comment. We know the name of the accuser but are withholding it because we have a policy not to name accusers in these types of cases.


Frank Nitty Arrest Details

 

In the video obtained by Wisconsin Right Now, Nitty says, “I gotta turn myself in y’all. If you haven’t heard, that’s even crazy, so she’s sitting around telling someone she loves somebody. She didn’t have nowhere to go.”

He says the accuser is “one of the people that marched with me, came to my house. They didn’t have nowhere to go basically.”

During the video, he stops to tell officers outside his home, “I’m coming out, y’all.” He tells them he needs 40 seconds to use the bathroom.

He continues, “She needed somewhere to stay, came to knock on my door, drove me to the airport and everything,”

Nitty then alleged the accuser “disappeared” with a rental car that wasn’t in his name and she wasn’t supposed to drive. He said he had been asking her to bring it back for days and told her “they’re going to have to call the police because I didn’t rent it in my name.”

He said he texted the woman and could tell she was reading the messages, but she didn’t respond.

“Then after that I said,’Fine, I’ll leave it alone, they’re going to call police on you,'” he says in the video.

He added, “Who gets sexually assaulted, drives to the airport, makes sure they landed, you know, this is crazy.”

He’s smoking in the video. You can see a second man in the video. They then go outside.

“Thank you for your cooperation,” a Milwaukee police officer tells Nitty. “I have the text messages from her. She’s retaliating,” Nitty tells police.

Frank nitty sexual assault

The officer says, “Whatever you have to give your side of the story.” Nitty responds, “A person can say anything.” The officer told Nitty he apologized for the inconvenience and asked Nitty whether he wanted to pull up his bracelets to be cuffed. “Are those cuffs ok?” the officer asks.

The video shows Nitty being handcuffed by Milwaukee police and led to a squad car. There were multiple officers at the scene.

Frank nitty sexual assault

You can hear another man getting agitated as Nitty is led away. “That’s the type of sh*t that’s ok look at them,” the second man says. “People get badges act like they can fight.”

Nitty gives another statement on video as he stands next to the squad car. “Let me say bye to everybody. I love you all. You all know this is bullsh*t. I have all the evidence to back it up. Continue to support.”

He expressed that he only had $40.

 

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Voter turnout, in fact, has slightly increased since the law went into effect. Wisconsin voters will vote on making voter ID a constitutional amendment April 1.

Democrats in the state have argued the amendment will disenfranchise voters.

The state’s current law, however, has had no negative impact on minority groups voting or Dane and Milwaukee counties.

The report found that socioeconomic factors such as poverty rates and education levels have a larger impact on voter turnout than voter ID laws.

“By analyzing decades of election data both before and after Wisconsin implemented Voter ID, we found a general rise in voter turnout, rather than the widespread disenfranchisement that critics often suggest,” said WILL Research Director Will Flanders. “Any claims suggesting Voter ID is ‘voter suppression’ are merely political scare tactics aimed at undermining faith in Wisconsin’s elections. Furthermore, it’s worth exploring whether Voter ID can actually increase turnout by strengthening confidence in Wisconsin’s election system.”

The research cited several studies that backed its conclusion across the country, with data showing that states with voter ID laws don’t have significantly different turnout than those without the law.

It also cited a Wisconsin study after the 2016 election where 1.7% said they didn’t vote because they didn’t have adequate ID while 1.4% said they were told at the polls that their ID was not adequate.

“It is well known among political scientists that individuals have a tendency to lie to pollsters regarding whether they voted or not,” the report said. “One key explanation for this is what is known as social desirability bias. In general, people do not want to ‘look bad’ to pollsters. As such, they may lie to the pollster about things that are perceived as socially undesirable, such as refraining from voting.”

Instead, WILL’s report looked at aggregate data of turnout change in the state and in key counties such as Dane and Milwaukee.

The study found that voter turnout has increased by 1.5%, on average, in the state since the law was implemented.

“This is an interesting result,” the report said. “While it is likely too large of a leap to say voter ID has increased turnout due to the correlational nature of our analysis, it seems that there is no negative relationship.”

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(The Center Square) – Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol continue to move through their to-do list. The latest was a slate of bills focusing on public safety.

The Assembly on recently approved:

● K9 Riggs Act – Increases penalties for causing injury to law enforcement animals. The bill is named after Kenosha County Sheriff Department K9 Riggs, who was shot by a criminal. Riggs survived and is now in retirement.

● Prosecution Reform – Requires approval from the court before prosecutors can dismiss serious charges.

● Parental Notification – Ensures parents are promptly notified of sexual misconduct in school.

● Criminal Case Database – Creates a new database of crimes in Wisconsin.

● Reckless Driving Crackdown – Allows for the impoundment of vehicles used in reckless driving offenses.

● Parole Revocation – Revokes extended supervision, parole, or probation if a person is charged with a new crime.

● Child Trafficking Penalties – Imposes life imprisonment for the crime of trafficking multiple children and requires restitution be paid to the victims.

● Theft Crimes – Increases the penalties for certain retail theft crimes.

● School Resource Officers – Ensures officers are put back into Milwaukee Schools.

“Cracking down on crime shouldn’t be a partisan issue, but in Madison, it has increasingly become so,” Assembly Majority Leader Tyler August said after Thursday’s votes.

Rep. Amanda Nedweski, R-Pleasant Prairie, authored the K9 Riggs Act, which was named after a Kenoha police dog who was shot and wounded by a suspect back in 2021.

“Riggs’s heroism united the community, galvanizing support for local law enforcement just a year after rioters in Kenosha protested against them,” Nedweski added. “These dogs are not only invaluable members of the department; they are also family to their partners.”

But not every lawmaker was on board with the Republicans' public safety slate.

Milwaukee Rep. Ryan Clancy, D-Milwaukee, called the legislation "misleading and misguided."

“Once again, the Wisconsin legislature was forced to spend our time and resources considering badly written, badly conceived bills that will harm people and waste public resources," Clancy said in a statement. "It’s wildly irresponsible to even consider increasing penalties and interfering with the very few tools of leniency we have with a prison system holding 5,000 more people than intended. But here we are."

The slate of legislation will head to the Senate.

Bill Introduced to Ban Student Visas to Chinese Nationals

U.S. Rep. Riley Moore, R-WV, filed a bill on Friday to ban Chinese nationals from receiving student visas.

“Every year we allow nearly 300,000 Chinese nationals to come to the U.S. on student visas. We’ve literally invited the CCP to spy on our military, steal our intellectual property, and threaten national security. Just last year, the FBI charged five Chinese nationals here on student visas after they were caught photographing joint US-Taiwan live fire military exercises. This cannot continue,” he said.

Moore’s Stop Chinese Communist Prying by Vindicating Intellectual Safeguards in Academia Act (Stop CCP VISAs Act) has several cosponsors. The bill would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit the admission of Chinese nationals as nonimmigrant students, according to the bill language.

He points to the FBI last year charging five Chinese nationals who were in the U.S. on student visas at the University of Michigan after they were caught photographing joint US-Taiwan live fire military exercises at Camp Grayling in August 2023 claiming they were members of the media.

He also points to a Chinese student attending the University of Minnesota who was sentenced to six months in prison last October for taking drone photographs of naval shipbuilding operations at Newport News Shipbuilding in Norfolk, Virginia. Moore also points to a former Illinois Institute of Technology graduate who was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2023 for spying for the Chinese government, acting as an agent of China’s Ministry of State Security and making a material false statement to the U.S. Army when he enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve.

“Congress needs to end China’s exploitation of our student visa program. It’s time we turn off the spigot and immediately ban all student visas going to Chinese nationals,” he said.

These are but a handful of examples. More than 60 Chinese Communist Party-related cases of espionage and acts of transnational repression were reported in 20 states under the Biden administration, according to a U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security report, The Center Square reported. That’s in addition to 224 reported incidents of Chinese espionage directed at the U.S. between 2000 and 2023, according to the report. Examples include transmission of sensitive military information to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), theft of U.S. trade secrets to benefit the PRC, transnational repression schemes to target PRC dissidents and obstruction of justice.

Other examples include a Department of Justice case from last December involving a Chinese national and lawful permanent resident of California who was arrested for flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base and taking photographs. He was arrested for violating national defense airspace prior to boarding a flight to China.

Another DOJ case related to a Chinese national illegally living in the U.S. who was arrested for allegedly shipping weapons and ammunition to North Korea, The Center Square reported.

Another involved a PRC spy arrested in California who worked for a state lawmaker and Chinese operatives arrested in Guam near a U.S. military installation on the same day as a live ballistic missile interception test, The Center Square reported.

Outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray’s parting warning to Americans was that China remains one of the greatest threats to U.S. national security, a warning he consistently issued.

“The greatest long-term threat facing our country, in my view, is represented by the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese government, which I consider to be the defining threat of our generation,” he said, The Center Square reported.

The DOJ says it opens new cases to counter PRC intelligence operations roughly every 12 hours. Of the espionage cases it's prosecuted since 2018, it says 80% allege the PRC would benefit; 60% of trade secret theft cases are linked to China.

It also lists examples of indictments of Chinese nationals conspiring to and committing economic espionage and theft of trade secrets going back to 2018 under the Trump administration.

PRC threats increased as the greatest number of Chinese nationals illegally entered the U.S. in recorded history under the Biden administration – more than 176,000 nationwide, The Center Square first reported.

U.S.-Canada Border Illegal Border Crossings

Illegal Border Crossings Drop to Lowest Levels in February in U.S. History

Illegal border crossings dropped to their lowest level for the month of February in recorded history, according to the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.

In February, 28,654 encounters and apprehensions of illegal border crossers were reported nationwide – a roughly 90% drop from the number reported in previous Februarys under the Biden administration.

In February 2024, 256,071 were reported compared to 213,911 in February 2023 and 250,404 in February 2022.

At the southwest border, 11,709 illegal border crossers were encountered or apprehended last month, significantly down from 189,913 in February 2024; 156,630 inl 2023; and 166,010 in 2022.

At the northern border, 4,098 illegal border crossers were encountered or apprehended last month, down from 14,653 in February 2024; from 13,052 in February 2023; and 7,822 in 2022.

The majority apprehended were single adults, followed by individuals claiming to be in a family unit, and unaccompanied minors.

Nationwide, Border Patrol apprehensions between ports of entry averaged roughly 330 a day in February, the lowest nationwide average apprehensions in CBP history.

At the southwest border, apprehensions plunged to fewer than 300 a day. Border Patrol agents apprehended 8,347 illegal border crossers between ports of entry, CBP said, representing a 94% decrease from February 2024.

CBP Office of Field Operations agents encountered 3,362 inadmissible illegal foreign nationals at ports of entry along the southwest border last month, a 93% drop from February 2024, according to the data.

The reason for the drop, CBP says, is because President Donald Trump and Department of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem “have sent a clear message: if you cross the border illegally, you will be deported without an opportunity to try another day, or in a few hours. As a result, CBP encounters with illegal aliens have decreased dramatically.”

Illegal border crossings also dropped after U.S. military troops were deployed to the southwest border and active patrols increased.

Contrary to former DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who created a CBP One mobile app to fast-track inadmissible illegal foreign nationals into the U.S., the Trump administration launched a new mobile app to help facilitate departures.

The new CBP Home mobile app allows unlawfully present foreign nationals or those with revoked parole to voluntarily notify the federal government of their plan to leave the U.S. The app was designed to help them comply with an executive order Trump issued, “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” CBP says, to ensure “an orderly process for aliens to communicate their departure plans.”

Additionally, in the first week of March, CBP began taking down soft-sided facilities used to process illegal border crossers into the U.S. under the Biden administration. Doing so is saving taxpayers between $5 million and $30 million a month per facility.

“CBP no longer has a need for them as illegal aliens are being quickly removed,” CBP acting director Pete Flores said. CBP has “full capability to manage the detention of apprehended aliens in its permanent facilities.”

CBP plans to close three SSFs in Texas – Donna, North Eagle Pass and Laredo; and two in Arizona: Yuma and Tucson. SSFs in San Diego, Calif., and El Paso, Texas, currently remain open.

Manpower and other resources that had been diverted to SSFs are being redirected to other priorities “to speed CBP’s progress in gaining operational control over the southwest border,” Flores said.

Additionally, agents who were pulled from their regular duties or stations in other areas of the country who were assigned to the SSFs are returning to their primary enforcement duties, CBP said.