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>> A Madison police officer
shot and killed a man as

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four officers attempted to
arrest him this week on

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Madison's near East Side.
Cell phone video of the

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altercation quickly went
viral. The community

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response was swift,
demanding answers and

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action. Reporter and
videographer Marissa Wojcik

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has more. But first, a
warning to viewers. This

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video contains sounds of
gunfire.

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>> Who died today? Who was
murdered today?

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>> Lori.
>> We want the officer's

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name tonight and we want
him arrested.

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>> Protesters swelled the
main traffic artery leading

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to the state capitol
Wednesday. Soon after,

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police shot and killed Cory
Ruiz during an arrest.

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>> We all witnessed on
social media last night. A

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human being take the life
of another human being. We

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were all there.
>> Outrage over what online

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footage showed led
community members to

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disrupt a city press
conference and an event at

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the Capitol.
>> A lot of these places

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don't even care and what is
going on is wrong. But yet

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y'all sit here with stale
faces.

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>> Police say officers
responded to a call of a

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man checking parked
vehicles after he attempted

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to flee. A physical
altercation ensued. One

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officer attempted to use a
Taser, which failed. Police

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say Ruiz injured an officer
with a knife before that

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officer opened fire.
>> When you see someone

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shot on camera and the
shooting happens within a

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matter of, you know, one,
two, three seconds, that is

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angering and it's
horrifying and it's

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heartbreaking.
>> I want to be clear. It

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does not matter who you are
or what your past is, you

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should not lose your life
as a result of an encounter

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with law enforcement. That
should not happen.

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>> City officials responded
to calls for accountability

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Thursday.
>> My first thought is when

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the officer is walking away,
why isn't he walking away

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in cuffs? That's my first
thought.

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on George Floyd's neck, and
we don't want to hear it

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today. That's the.
>> It's really

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understandable that people
want answers right now. I

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want them to. But the
honest truth is that good

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investigations take time.
We have to let the

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investigation play out.
>> This is an open and

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active homicide
investigation. Right now.

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>> The investigation is
being led by the Wisconsin

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Department of Justice
Division of Criminal

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Investigation.
>> They are hunting us.

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They are hunting us.
>> I think everyone in this

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room can feel the thinness
of trust in this city right

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now, right? I can feel it.
It did not start yesterday.

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And it's not abstract. It's
the direct result, I think,

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of what our community has
gone through and we have

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watched repeat. The
shooting happened a block

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and a half from where Tony
Robinson was shot and

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killed by a Madison police
officer in 2015. It

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happened near the same
corner where Paul Heenan

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was shot and killed by a
police officer in Madison

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in 2012. So three fatal
encounters with police

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department within roughly
14 years, on the same

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handful of blocks.
>> This is not new to

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Madison.
>> This is the third death

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of a Black man on Willy
Street. This is not new.

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That's why when we say no
justice, we mean no peace.

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>> There is not enough
de-escalation. There are

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poor training methods, and
then there is a tendency to

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go to the most lethal form
of subduing somebody as

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possible. When you pull out
a gun, someone is going to

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die. And we've seen it
happen time and time again,

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and we need that to change.
Now.

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>> Many in the community
are calling for all

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officers to wear body
cameras.

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>> As you know, we don't
have a broad deployment of

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body worn cameras in
Madison, and I understand

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that this fact does create
another challenge to

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repairing trust in our
community.

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department isn't already
deploying them.

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>> So the community
advocated against

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implementation of body worn
cameras for some years. And

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then more importantly, more
recently, the community

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took a different turn and
supported body worn cameras.

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In the time that I've been
on the council, the support

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for body worn cameras has
increased and they'll be

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funded. I'm confident that
they'll be.

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>> Funded.
>> And we're not going to

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wait for a final report
from DC, I to begin the

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work of examining our
policies, our training and

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response. We're going to do
that now.

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>> We'll be here every
night until we get justice

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for the family.
>> There's a collective

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anger, there's a collective
pain there, and there's a

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collective loss.
>> Is name.

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>> For me.
>> Say his name.