A Black Lives Matter cofounder used $840,000 of the group's funds to pay her brother for 'security services'

A cofounder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation used donated funds to pay her brother $840,000 for "professional security services," according to tax documents filed with the IRS.

The filing showed that Patrisse Cullors, the organization's one-time executive director, paid the sum to Cullors Protection, a company owned by her brother Paul Cullors.

Paul Cullors is also a graffiti artist, according to an artist description on Crenshaw Dairy Mart — an artist collective co-founded by Patrisse Cullors. He was previously cited in the New York Magazine as BLM's head of security.

Shalomyah Bowers, the foundation's board secretary, told the Associated Press that Paul Cullors' company was hired because the group — which often protests against law-enforcement organizations — felt that its protection could not be entrusted to former police officers who typically run security firms.

According to the tax filing, the organization also paid more than $969,000 for live-event, design, and media production to Trap Heals LLC, a company founded by Damon Turner, who fathered a child with Patrisse Cullors.

According to an exclusive published by the AP in February last year, the BLM foundation received around $90 million in donations in 2020 alone. Several Black activists and supporters of the movement have called for more transparency on how the money received is being used.

The newly reported filing — which covers the period of July 1, 2020, to June 20, 2021 — was given exclusively to The AP and showed that the organization received a revenue of $79 million in that time. The documents also said that the foundation has $42 million in net assets.

The filing stated that BLM invested $32 million in stocks, which organizers told the AP would help to ensure that the foundation's work continues in the future.

Another $6 million was spent on a Studio City home in Los Angeles that was meant as a retreat for a Black artist fellowship. Organizers told the AP that the property — which has six bedrooms and bathrooms, a swimming pool, a soundstage, and office space — is still being used for that purpose.

BLM spent around $37.7 million in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021, including the payments to Trap Heals and Cullors Protection, per the tax filing.

The documents show that about $26 million was used on grants to organizations, local chapters, and families. This included grants of $2.3 million to the non-profit organization Living Through Giving Foundation, $1.4 million to The Michael O.D. Brown We Love Our Sons & Daughters Foundation, and $200,000 to the Trayvon Martin Foundation.

Patrisse Cullors, who stepped down as the foundation's executive director in May last year, did not take any financial compensation for her work in the organization, the filing showed.

A Black Lives Matter cofounder used $840,000 of the group's funds to pay her brother for 'security services' (msn.com)

Meanwhile, support for the movement's strategies and tactics dropped from 40 percent to 31 percent.

Some of the steepest declines in support for the movement were found among African American respondents. Their support for the movement's goals dropped from 67 percent to 56 percent since last April, while support for the movement's strategies and tactics want from 65 percent to 49 percent.

Support for Black Lives Matter Plummets Among African Americans: Poll (newsweek.com)

Patric cullers background. Born to poverty, lived in section eight housing, prior to BLM job taught community college social justice courses for a couple years, then Worked for free  for BLM, she was able to buy 3 houses now worth over 3 millions. Hmm, what college grads, even with hard science degrees can accomplish such a financial feat?

Also in 2020, Wallace shared a response expressing delight over a Newsweek article about the burning down of a Minneapolis police precinct following Floyd's death.

The article contained a poll that found that 54 percent of Americans felt the destruction of the precinct was justified, due to the indiscretions of officer Derek Chauvin, who choked Floyd during a May 2020 arrest, leading to his death.

Wallace captioned the post - which featured an image of a liquor store near the precinct up in flames - with three grinning face emojis.

A comment on Wallace' post sharing the article reads: 'Only 54%??'

In another anti-police post, Williams reacted to Assata Shakur, the aunt of famed West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur jailed for the 1973 murder of a New Jersey State Trooper, being put on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorist List in 2013, after escaping the New Jersey prison in 1979 and being granted asylum in Cuba five years later.

Wallace wrote in response: 'Assata Becomes First woman on FBI most wanted... They