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policies.
>> You can get the full

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episode of Inside Wisconsin
Politics wherever you get

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your podcasts. Earlier this
week, Madison police in

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riot gear cleared out a
protest encampment at the

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intersection where an
officer shot and killed

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Corey Ruiz on July 22nd.
For at least two nights,

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protesters responded by
throwing rocks and setting

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fires in the street. More
than two dozen people have

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been arrested. In a written
statement, the Ruiz family

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denounced any affiliation
with the encampment,

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calling for people to be
peaceful. Here and now,

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reporter Murv Seymour was
on the scene and brings us

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this report.
>> I personally do not plan

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on leaving this space at
all.

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>> Going into the 13th day
of this protest. The week

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begins with tension and a
seeming clock ticking at

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the corners of Baldwin and
Williamson streets. Just

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how long could. And would
this intersection where

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Corey Ruiz was shot and
killed by a Madison police

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officer remain closed?
>> I've been here since the

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22nd.
>> Some businesses stuck in

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the past still shut down as
city officials and

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protesters work to hash out
a resolution that comforts

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both sides. Some community
members demand a permanent

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memorial to honor Corey
Ruiz. City officials say

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they're open to that, but
want an end to the

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encampment.
>> And now the grief has

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turned into anger. Now,
because they're not moving

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swiftly enough.
>> That's what community

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activist Jackie Morris says
about police and the city's

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investigation. He and
others continue to demand

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that the unidentified
officer who pulled the

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trigger is arrested and
charged.

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>> As a community, what are
we doing here?

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>> Azrael JD, who goes by
the name spawn, wants to

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see more than that.
>> The perfect situation

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would be a complete end to
policing as we know it, at

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least in the city of
Madison. Policing should

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lie in the hands of the
community.

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>> I'm sure if they
arrested him right now, at

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this minute, all this would
go away with blink of an

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eye.
week, all four corners

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leading to the scene still
cut off by homemade

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blockades set up by
protesters made of cars,

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RVs, debris and at this
section, a bed of nails.

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>> What's his name?
>> A day before the two

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week mark of this
controversial shooting, in

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what seems like a blink of
an eye during a pre-dawn

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raid, a swarm of nearly 50
law enforcement officers

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sweep in, clearing out with
force what couldn't be

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cleared out with patience,
compromise or negotiations.

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>> By the time that I got
over here on all four of

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these corners, there were
dozens of cops out here,

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dozens on every single
corner. And the mayor has

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been like, oh, it's
dangerous. The businesses

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are against them. The
neighbors are against them.

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It's not sanitary. The food
isn't safe. But they always

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do that because they will
always paint out community

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protecting each other.
>> Can you guys move off

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the spot? I did.
>> Kern Latinos.

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>> Criticism over policing
in Madison makes its way

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all the way to leaders at
City Hall.

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>> How are we supposed to
build trust with this? How

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do you come back from this?
>> This week's virtual

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Common Council meeting
lasts more than seven hours.

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>> But my neighbors, the
people I care about, they

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are being terrorized every
day by these police

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officers.
>> Three minutes at a time.

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Almost 400 people
registered to speak, most

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in support of more trauma
inspired policing.

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>> People need to have more
of a grieving time for all

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this.
funding for.

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>> Oversight without
resources is not oversight.

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>> In her first briefing
with reporters flanked by

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the police chief and other
city leaders, the mayor

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admits there's work to be
done to better

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relationships between
police and the people

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they're sworn to protect.
>> I still believe that we

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will do better working
together than causing more

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harm and destruction. I
very much hope that our

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community can come together,
start listening to each

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other across difference.
Acknowledge some of the

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deep structural issues in
our society and focus on

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how we move forward.
>> I've identified some

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areas that I think we're
going to make immediate

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progress on, hopefully in
immediate steps, to do some

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restructuring to help us
get there. But that takes

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time. And the mayor's point,
it's it's near impossible

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to do it when you're in the
middle of a crisis.

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>> For most of the week,
traffic flows through this

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traumatized community
pretty much like normal.

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But the sense of permanent
peace and normalcy in and

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around this intersection
remains to be seen.

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>> The community needs some
kind of closure, and we

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need to be able to trust
the police, the ones who

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protect and serve us
instead of the community

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against the police, the
police against community.

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>> And that's something
both sides can agree on.