Category: Police Monitor
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Madison ain’t seen nothing yet!
“History has shown what that can be.” — Madison’s mayor. At some point, the WI Division of Criminal Investigation will release its report on the shooting death of a black man, Corey Ruiz, by a white Madison police officer. Could be today, could be later this year. This state agency will have had weeks to…
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Pray for Madison
Why are Madison’s leaders silent? After taking over Madison’s seat of government over the weekend, guerrillas engaged in the Corey Ruiz intifada are locked and loaded with tendentious questions for Mayor Satya, Police Chief Patterson, and other city managers at tonight’s special (and we think, unprecedented) Council meeting. → It’s live-streamed on the City Channel,…
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Burning down the town for peace
Madison’s police monitor promises to ‘f-ing burn this city down!’ It’s a political Rorschach test here in Madison WI. Irresponsible or understandable? Depends whether you’re an over-taxed home owner paying off a mortgage or a social justice warrior voting Francesca Hong next Tuesday. “I will f-ing burn this city down!” No denying: Aeiramique Glass, Madison’s…
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Madison progressive alder calls police monitor behavior ‘outrageous’
Alder agrees: ‘Burn this F-ing City down’ is “outrageous.” Tag Evers is no Republican. By profession he is a concert promoter. Currently in his fourth term as a City of Madison alder. Represents the affluent and very progressive Monroe/Dudgeon/Nakoma/Vilas/Regent neighborhoods on Madison’s near West side. Nice guy. Once asked me to sit down for coffee with…
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‘Things are about to get bad’
‘Burn this city down!’ — Madison’s Independent Police Monitor Great thing about electronic message boards: they can be rewritten with a few keystrokes. Driving in at 8 this morning, CSN&Y’s “Woodstock” on the tunes, two electronic signs proclaimed that Madison’s Willy Street was open for bidness. When it’s not closed. The mob had shut it…