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Kevin Fischer is a veteran broadcaster, the recipient of over 150 major journalism awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, the Wisconsin Associated Press, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association, and others. He has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for over three decades. A longtime aide to state Senate Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature, Kevin can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, "InterCHANGE," on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their lovely baby daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.

Franklin teen charged for spreading racial graffiti...should we make a movie about him?


Seventeen year old Jeffrey Biondich of Franklin and two others have been arrested in a racial graffiti case in the Town of Raymond. The three have admitted they painted racial slurs and swastikas on the fence of a home owned by a couple that is black and Asiain last July. The three arrested face charges of criminal damage to property, graffiti and trespassing and have admitted wrongdoing.

Boards were ripped off a new fence of a home on Highway K near I-94 last July 14. Graffiti had been plastered with “KKK” and “White Power.” Authorities discovered three empty paint cans and a paint brush at the scene. The 600-yard fence on the property needed replacements of 220 yards of boards.

When I think of these graffiti cases, I consider the young perpetrators criminals, punks, hooligans that care nothing about their neighbor, fellow man, or their property that they destroy. But that’s just me. There is another, softer, more conciliatory view.

Some would view any of the three arrested and charged in the Raymond crimes as:

Brave

Courageous

Artistic

Fascinating

Talented

Passionate

Risk-takers

Story-makers that Hollywood drools over



For the past 10 years, Ricky Bell has been travelling across California using psychology to garner the trust of graffiti criminals (my words, not his). Bell works to win the taggers over so that they will allow Bell to capture their graffiti painting in action. Bell is producing a documentary and it’s bound to be glowing, one he hopes will win an Academy Award.

Wonderful. Just what we need, in theaters all across America, a film more or less paying tribute to and honoring, glorifying, justifying, rationalizing, apologizing for criminal, destructive activity by our youth.

Ricky Bell, your cameras are definitely pointed in the wrong direction at the wrong subject.

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