Hammond, thanks very much and really good luck to you.
>> Thank you very much for having me.
>> It continues to be a tough week for a Madison
community and the city's police department. After a
deadly police shooting in a neighborhood where it has
happened before, some public events are on hold
and parts of one community remain shut down "Here&
Now". Reporter Murv Seymour takes us to the front line
with details. >> We are going to scream
his name, justice for, justice for.
>> For more than a week and counting, echoes of anger
and frustration continue to ring out in and around the
East Side neighborhood, where Corey Ruiz was shot
and killed during a scuffle with four Madison police
officers. >> This is not a time to be
uncouth. This is a time to come together and be
neighbors. >> The high profile
shooting is in the early phases of being
investigated by the state Department of Justice,
overseen by Attorney General Josh Kaul.
>> It started as just someone came and painted on
the road, and flowers and candles were placed there.
And then it eventually started to grow.
>> This 12 foot tall traveling monument
represents outrage and solidarity against police
brutality. First set up in Minneapolis after George
Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officer,
the raised fist now sits in the center of the street at
a popular intersection in Madison. It's the very spot
where Corey Ruiz deadly encounter with police was
caught on cell phone video, sparking national attention,
outrage and the nation's most known civil rights
attorney, Benjamin Crump, to come to Madison to
represent the family. >> I love this city and I
love these people. And this is this is awful.
>> Natalie Love Church lights, candles, others
bring cards, some place flowers. Most everyone
takes a moment to pause and process what's happening
here. Natalie tells me she's come to pay her
respects and to demand accountability.
>> Justice looks like there's a system that's in
place, a justice system in place. And this was not it.
Accountability needs to be taken and justice for this
poor person. I don't care if he was guilty as hell. I
don't care if this was not it. This was not justice.
>> What started out as a memorial has morphed into a
movement to help those who are a lot like Corey Ruiz,
unhoused and in need of mental health and social
services support, Jazzman Brown tells me. At last
count, nearly 50 tents have been provided, allowing
some to camp out on the streets. A temporary fix to
a complex housing problem, a touch of comfort and hope
to a community that needs it now more than ever.
>> We all know that he was homeless and that he had
his struggles. And how could we not, you know, in
the place where he was killed, in the neighborhood
where homelessness is so high, help those that, you
know, were in the exact same situation he was. So
we've built a space for everyone.
>> One of the lead organizers of this space,
Lorien Carter, says if there's one thing this
memorial represents, it's hope.
>> This is affecting all of us. This is something
that's in your backyard and a proximity to to whiteness
doesn't equal immunity. We've seen it in real time
now. And so I think that, I think that the country has
to acknowledge that there is a race problem.
>> She and others want the police officer to be
charged with murder, which will ultimately be the
decision of the Dane County District attorney once the
DOJ completes its investigation.
>> Please stop telling us to heal. When you keep
reopening the same wounds. >> The police shooting of
Corey Ruiz opens old wounds for Laurean and others.
Just over ten years ago, just a few blocks from here,
a Madison police officer shot and killed unarmed
nephew Tony Robinson. >> Yeah, but I have a right
to be here. Just like you do, man.
>> But you have a right to peacefully protest
somewhere else. Though this is not this place is not
for that. >> The sense of peace here
was briefly interrupted over Mike Weber's right to
support the Madison Police Department. Weber tells me
he also wants accountability.
way or the other. You know, if when the results of the
investigation come in, I might change my mind. I
don't know, but but I want to see people be cool until
that happens. >> What do we want? Justice.
When do we want it? Now. What do we want?
>> For the second time in just over a week,
protesters marched to the state Capitol, taking their
battle to the heart of Madison.
>> This is about how Black people have been treated by
this country and by this state.
>> Where they continue to interrupt daily routines
with a loud and clear message. Back at the Corey
Ruiz Memorial, this small section of community works
to get back to normal, what's normal, and just how
long it takes to get there is anybody's guess.