Who is Paul Cullors? BLM paid Patrisse Cullors' artist brother $800K for ‘security’
A co-founder of Black Lives Matter reportedly used more than $800,000 in donations to pay her brother for “security services” for the charity. Patrisse Cullors' brother Paul Cullors, however, mostly works as a graffiti artist.
Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, paid a company controlled by Paul Cullors a total of $840,993 in the fiscal year 2020, the group’s federal tax filings revealed. The filings cover the period July 1, 2020, to June 20, 2021.
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Who is Paul Cullors?
Paul, the eldest of Patrisse Cullors’ three siblings, has worked as a graffiti artist since 1991, reveals a video posted on the Crenshaw Dairy Mart’s website. The art collective was reportedly co-founded by Patrisse, and is "dedicated to shifting the trauma-induced conditions of poverty and economic injustice, bridging cultural work and advocacy, and investigating ancestries through the lens of Inglewood and its community."
Patrisse’s first book, 'When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir', reveals that the siblings grew up in an impoverished home in a multi-racial neighborhood in Van Nuys. Paul and Patrisse grew up together with brother Monte and sister Jasmine. Paul began taking care of his younger siblings after their father Alton left home. “It’s his voice I wake up to each morning when it’s time to go to school and my mother has left already for one of her jobs,” she wrote. “It’s Paul who gets us ready, tells us to brush our teeth and ‘come on, let’s go.'”
On the Crenshaw Dairy Mart website, Paul wrote, "In 2006, I lived with my sister Trisse. She, fortunately, had a wall in her backyard. I asked her if I could use the wall for art and she said ‘yes.’ I lived there for a year, then due to the owner raising the rent $500 more a month we decided to move out.”
Coming back to the donations paid to Paul, this is the first time BLMGNF has filed with the IRS since it received over $66 million in donations in October 2020. Paul founded the security company Cullors Protection LLC back in July 2020. The recent filings show that the company received the cash for “professional security services". Paul was one of two “visiting artists” at Crenshaw Dairy Mart around the same time.
Public records show that Paul purchased a suburban Los Angeles home for $637,006 in December 2020. Reportedly, there is no storefront or business headquarters for Cullors Protection LLC, and the company is operated and registered at Paul's home. It is unclear whether he is the only employee or if there is anyone at all besides him. Public records also revealed that Paul secured a loan of $350,000 to finance his purchase of the three-bedroom, two-bath bungalow. He also secured a loan to install Tesla generators on the property, according to public records.
Patrisse not only paid the cash to Paul but also doled out $969,459 to a company controlled by Damon Turner, her young son's father. The group even paid $2,167,894 for consulting work to a company owned by one of its current board members, Shalomyah Bowers.
A month after New York Post revealed that Patrisse had snapped up properties in Los Angeles and Atlanta following a $3.2 million real estate buying spree, she resigned from BLMGNF in May 2021. As per public records, she eventually sold the Atlanta property. She also denied the fact that she used the charity money for her personal purchases.