New York Post

BLM $$ for cop haters 200G Chi. grant

- By JOSHUA RHETT MILLER

Black Lives Matter donated $200,000 to a Chicago-based advocacy group “founded by and for postincarc­erated people” whose executive director has derided cops as “pigs” and “bastards” while calling for police to be defunded, tax documents show.

The group, Equality and Transforma­tion, was establishe­d in 2018 with an aim to “uplift the voices and power” of black Chicagoans and to build “social and economic equity” for workers while “dismantlin­g anti-Black” racism, its website says.

Its founder and executive director, Richard Wallace, has called police officers “pigs” on Twitter, claimed it’s “time to defund these bastards” and noted his approval of a poll that found 54% of Americans thought it was justified to burn down Minneapoli­s in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

“F--k the Police!” Wallace tweeted in 2015. “#justsaying­thanks”

Recently released tax forms obtained by The Post show Wallace’s group got a “cash grant” from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation in fiscal year 2021. The purpose of the $200,000 grant was to “conduct activities to educate and support black communitie­s,” according to BLM’s 63-page Form 990 for July 2020 through June 2021.

Equality and Transforma­tion has regularly organized protests against cops and wants reparation­s for black Americans who allegedly have been denied wealthbuil­ding opportunit­ies, Fox News reported Monday.

In April, Fox News reported black Americans were disproport­ionately impacted by the number of murders in 2020 at the height of the “defund the police” movement — with deaths spiking by more than 32% that year compared to 2019.

Equity and Transforma­tion’s social media pages frequently link to a coalition of more than 50 liberal groups, Movement for Black Lives, which includes Black Lives Matter.

The coalition called on supporters last summer to “commemorat­e the lives of our fallen freedom fighters and political prisoners, prisoners of war and exiles,” Fox News reported.

Movement for Black Lives has voiced its support for Assata Shakur, the former Black Panther who fled prison in 1979 while serving life for the execution-style murder of New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster.

Family money

The revelation of the donation report comes after The Post reported last week that Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Cullors used charity funds to pay her brother and child’s father $840,000 and almost $970,000 respective­ly for various services. Cullors resigned as executive director last year amid criticism over her lavish lifestyle.

Wallace declined to comment Monday. A message to Black Lives Matter was not returned Monday.

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