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 Majestic theater 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 arrestwithout 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.
15 responses to “Madison police monitor is reviewing her boss’s arrest”
Thanks for the update. I wondered why the two Prog compadres had encountered the police in the first place. State Journal never mentioned that. Also, appreciate the reminder of Grayson’s previous charge. I did see that in the paper though. This is gonna be interesting. And just in time for the end football season, so we have something to keep us entertained……
Based on that picture there’s a good chance Aeiramique Glass Blake is actually an AI.
As of this moment, no state charges against Pearson or Grayson appear on the court docketing site, https://www.wicourts.gov. I assume therefore that state charges haven’t been issued, at least not yet. If there’s some way to check Madison municipal court filings, I haven’t found it — in other words, it’s possible that (non-criminal) city charges have been issued against either or both individuals.
MPD tells me that they referred to the D.A.
I wish we could take with Peggy Lautenslugger about this, maybe her son could give us some insight.
Given each person’s close connection to police and prosecution oversight, Ozanne should consider asking a court to appoint a special prosecutor, on the basis of a conflict of interest, to make the charging decision. (§ 978.045, https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/978/045?view=section.) I don’t suppose anyone in local media is pressing him to do that.
Your honor, the Bloggeur;
This is literally the fox (the animal) guarding the hen house.
Is it only me, or does anybody else see a conflict of interest? Of course, the ‘progressive’ city attorney will deny it.
Poor ladies were just trying to have some fun,
In some areas places they would recognize a slight conflict of interest and hire a disinterested party to do the investigation.
NOT in Madison. The charged people will claim unnecessary use of force or other things against the MPD, the higher-ups at MPD won’t fight back, and the spineless legal department in Madison will give them everything they want.
I am 100% sure that if you ask these two people if they support body cameras on MPD they would say hell no.
If only there were body cameras on MPD officers. Oh, that’s right. The policy of no police body cameras in Madison exists due to a misguided and feeble attempt to reduce the jail population of certain favored demographic groups.
The other unspoken truth here is that Dane County’s contract with Urban Triage exists and continues for the purpose of forestalling more embarrassing bullhorn incidents at the state Capitol and city, county, and school board meetings.
Why are we living here again?
That’s a BINGO!
Word is out: Madison is a grifter’s paradise; come and get some!
Still shocked that MMOCA is the only organization smart enough (and with enough spine) to just say NO.
I hope someone recorded this on their phone and will post it. I need some entertainment.
[…] The video was taken by a bystander who had visited the third annual Black Men Coalition Foundation’s annual Revitalize Gala at the Edgewater, where Brandi Grayson-Tuck was given an award. The two women then drove down to the Merchant restaurant on E. Doty Street they parked in a no parking zone, marked by orange cones. Once inside, she was told to move her car. The owner called police. She returned to the car where she established that she was a driver and therefore subject to drunk driving charges. We’ve written about this case Monday and earlier today. […]
[…] faceless bureaucrats here at The Werkes have not forgotten the two scamps who seemed to have quite enjoyed their night on the town back on 12-19-25. Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, on the other hand, appears to have […]