The absurdity of the damn thing won’t stop.
Madison’s Independent Police Monitor may actually — five years after its misbegotten creation, after false starts, gender transitions, and preferred pronouns — report its first investigation into the often alleged racism of the Madison Police Department.
It’s official. Newly hired Police Monitor Aeiramique Glass Blake, contemporaneously suing her former employer (the City of Baltimore) for racial discrimination, will investigate the arrest of the woman who hired her on an annual equivalent of $148,992. Because Maia Pearson chairs the Police Civilian Oversight Board. Ms. Maia is also vice president of the entity that teaches Madison’s children (or doesn’t), the Metro Madison Board of Education. One-time candidate for the Democratic party’s nomination to the state legislature. As the lady sheriff in Fargo would say, Ms. Pearson is con-nec-ted!
The third entity of this coven of professional victims is the ubiquitous Brandi Grayson, who was behaving so egregiously Friday night 12-19-25 that employees of the [corrected] Merchant restaurant appealed to those aforementioned police for intervention. (Madison police are saying this.) (Give a thought to the blowback that this downtown isthmus venue risks now from its patrons: censorious “In This House …” yard-signing progressives.)
So set ’em up, Joe,
I got a little story I think you should know 🎵
It’s an hour before midnight on a Friday in downtown Madison and girls just wanna have fun. Getting into it with the workers at the nightspot. Driving over some orange cones in the loading dock, apparently drunk or otherwise impaired. Them’s the charges, anyway. Ms Grayson-Tuck refused the breathalyzer, was sent to the hospital for a blood draw. Maybe the lady doesn’t get her name in the paper often enough; six-month-old charges of disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property remain pending.
Raise your hands, platinum subscribers, if you think the Independent Monitor will conclude that the arrests of Mizzes Pearson and Grayson-Tuck were By The Book, tight as a submersible in the Mariana Trench, the police work solid as the rock of Gibraltar. Us, neither. Likely, Monitor Glass Blake will reveal that the two late-night revelers were victims right out of the cinematic Mississippi Burning, albeit in cold weather.
The race card played face up
The Capital Times cannot report the arrest without checking the racial disproportionality box. “Disorderly conduct is the most common charge among jail bookings in the Madison area, according to a recent study by the Dane County Criminal Justice Council.”
The study also found about 40% of people booked on disorderly conduct in the county are Black, while Black [they capitalize] or African American people make up 7% of Madison’s population.
The two women’s alleged crimes — misdemeanors though they be — will be routed up to the desk of District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, himself — where they will weigh heavily. Conferences will be convened. Our guess is the elected Democrat will wait to bring charges pending the Monitor’s write up. In that fashion, this taxpayer-supported agency will serve as a pro bono defense counsel, not that Ms. Grayson-Tuck needs one. Remember, she pays herself $290,242 per year off her taxpayer-contracted but unaudited human services agency, Urban Triage.
Equity justice instead of the law
Brandi Grayson blocked rush-hour traffic on the heavily traveled entrance to the city, John Nolen Drive, for three days in 2020 protesting the death of a petty criminal in Minneapolis who resisted arrest. Defund the Police and Release All Black Inmates, her coalition demanded. Reportedly, the blockade delayed an ambulance. No one was arrested.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: If exists racism in Madison, perhaps the possession arrow points in the other direction.
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