By District Herald
When they say “Black Lives Matter,” it is
clear the left does not mean black lives like the one of Bernell Tremmell.
Tremmell was well-known in his Milwaukee community for
being an outspoken advocate for President Donald Trump. He would spend his days
out in the heat at City Hall or in his neighborhood with his homemade signs
urging people to reelect the president in November.
On Thursday afternoon, the 60-year-old activist was
fatally shot in broad daylight outside his business, Expression Publications.
The storefront was covered in signs with bible verses, along with “Vote Donald
Trump 2020,” and “Re-Elect Trump 2020.” The suspect reportedly drove up, shot
him, and drove away.
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Law enforcement sources told “The Dan O’Donnell Show”
that they do not yet know the motive for the murder, since they have not yet
made any arrests, but “detectives are investigating the possibility that
Tremmell was killed over his political beliefs.”
Reggie Moore, Milwaukee Office of Violence Prevention
director, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had “intervened
in a dispute between Trammel and a young man” that he thought was “related to a
Trump sign that Trammell was carrying.”
It is unclear if the altercation was a factor in his
death.
“I had an interaction with him last Saturday across the
street from Walmart on Capitol Drive,” one woman who did not wish to be
identified told the radio show. “It was the second time I had seen him with his
Trump sign and I pulled my car over to chat with him. What a nice, friendly
man! We chatted for several minutes, and I told him I was proud of him and he’s
very brave to put himself out there so visibly as a Trump supporter!”
Heavy.com reports that a man named Kevan Penvose wrote on
Facebook that Trammell “was a man with whom I hardly ever agreed about anything
he wrote on his signs, but also, as a Rasta street preacher, he was one of the
people that make my neighborhood so uniquely wonderful. Around 12:30 this
afternoon I heard gunshots nearby as I was working at my dining room table.
Soon after, I was reading reports on social media of a shooting around the
block, at the location of this one-of-a-kind storefront that I’ve walked by a
million times… Peace and light, Ras Bernell.”
Anyone with information on the murder of Tremmell is
being urged to contact the Milwaukee Police Department.
