Kevin Mathewson

Kevin Mathewson is a former American politician and private investigator living in Kenosha, Wisconsin. In June 2020 he founded the Kenosha Guard Facebook during the George Floyd protests. In an interview with James Coomarasamy he described the Kenosha Guard as a call to arms movement utilizing the second amendment.
Political career
Mathewson had been elected twice as an alderman for District 8 of Kenosha City Council. His first period in office was from April 2012 to March 2014. The second period was from March 2016 to June 2017. He resigned on 27 June 2017 after announcing his family moved out of the district. . It was later acknowledged by Mathewson that he moved to Somers, a village in Kenosha County. He stood against George Stoner in the April 2019 election for President of Somers village, and lost polling 725 votes against 817.
"Kenosha Guard"
Although founded in June 2020, it was only following the Kenosha protests in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake that the Kenosha Guard facebook page attracted significant attention. On Tuesday 25 August Mathewson put a post on the Kenosha Guard Facebook page calling for patriots to take up arms to defend Kenosha. Within four hours 5,000 people had responded. The posting had been picked up by the alt-right website InfoWars.
Facebook removed the Kenosha Guard page following the Kenosha protest killings. Mark Zuckerberg explaining that the failure to remove it before was "an operational mistake".

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