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But before you let a chatbot weigh in on your money moves, there are some important

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do's and don'ts here are set to give an update on Wednesday's deadly police shooting on

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Williamson Street. Wednesday afternoon, Ruiz, there's Mayor Satya

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Rhodes Conway. Let's listen in. My immediate concern right now is for the

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well-being of our community. I want to make sure that everyone who needs it has access

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to resources and mental health support. Those resources exist and are available to you if

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you need them. If you need urgent support, please use the 988 Lifeline. You can call

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or text 988 to be connected with that support. You can also text home that's H-O-M-E or Ola

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H-O-A-L-A to 741-741. That's 741-741 to reach a live volunteer crisis counselor 24-7.

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Dean County also has a crisis hotline. That number is 608-280-2609. Again, that's

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608-280-2609. There are also more resources available on the public health website, which

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is publichealthmdc.com slash resources. This is incredibly difficult moment for the Madison

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community and I understand the very strong emotions that people are feeling. I am feeling

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them too. As a city, as a community, as a society, we have to do better. I want to be clear.

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It does not matter who you are or what your past is. You should not lose your life as a result of

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an encounter with law enforcement. That should not happen. Like many in our community today,

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I have a lot of questions and concerns about what happened yesterday. What decisions were made

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by officers that led to escalation instead of de-escalation. What different choices could have

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been made to prevent harm? What needs to change in police policy or training or anything else

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to prevent more deaths? This officer involved shooting must be rigorously investigated and it

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will be. The process has already started with the Department of Criminal Investigation,

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but that's just the first step. The DA will play a role as will the independent monitor

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and the police civilian oversight board. Our community deserves full transparency

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and accountability. It's really understandable that people want answers right now. I want them

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too. But the honest truth is that good investigations take time. We have to let the investigation play

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out, but believe me, anything that we can do on the city side to hasten that, we will.

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And beyond the formal investigation, I think there are questions that have to be answered.

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The days and weeks ahead, the Common Council and myself as representatives of the community

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will do our best to get and share information and to create spaces to have the conversations

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that need to be had. I'm going to let Council President Madison share more details about

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community listening sessions. But I also want to mention that there is a vigil tonight

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that's planned that I encourage people to attend if they feel so motivated.

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I also want to emphasize that the safety of the community is paramount right now.

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People have every right to peacefully protest and I urge people to do that safely and to take care

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of themselves in the process. The city is working to help facilitate this.

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I'll close with this. Dr. Anthony of the Urban League said earlier today in their statement

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that public safety must truly include everyone. I quote that statement,

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adjust community must protect residents from violence and also protect them from unnecessary

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harm by the very systems entrusted with their safety. Public safety cannot be measured only by

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enforcement. It must also be measured by dignity, restraint, accountability, fairness, and the

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preservation of life end quote. Madison should be a just community. We can be a just community.

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But we have work to do to truly be a just community.

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I'll hand the podium to council president Sabrina Madison.

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All righty. First of all, can you hear me? Okay. Thank you. All right. So

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I guess for me, I start with Corey could be a Charles. Charles can be a Clyde who step into the

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room. Clyde can be a Michael. Michael can be a Tony. Tony could be a LaShawn.

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A LaShawn can be James. James can be a Randall. Randall can be Tyrell.

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I can go on and on and on and on. But

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a Corey could have been my brother because my brother is homeless. He often rides a bike.

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We meet up by the by the beacon and Corey could have been a Charles. But speaking of Corey specifically,

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Corey has a family who loves him. I believe Corey has a child.

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Corey is a human being. Corey came from a mother. A mother who gave birth to him.

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Most of us likely came through into the world through traditional birth likely.

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And so you imagine when you take this child home, you have all of these hopes for your kid.

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You hope they grew up to be astronauts, presidents, entrepreneurs, so my business owners, community

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leaders, you have all of these hopes for your kids. And as your kids mature, you know, you begin to,

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especially if you're raising a black child and a black male child, you have to have very difficult

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conversations. My son is 31 and I've had those difficult conversations, not just with my own son,

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but with my three brothers. So the conversation is normally look like don't go out by yourself alone.

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If the police stop you, you tell you teach your kid all of these mechanics of what you need to do

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if you're stopped by the police. Make sure the police can see your hands, pull over right away,

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turn on all of your lights. All of these mechanics of just moving about the world,

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you sort of have to give this young black child all of these restrictions on how they move about

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the world versus this freedom that exists for white young men when you're raising white boys.

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For example, I have most of us have friends who are white folks with little white kids.

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And I've never heard my any of my female white friends with children giving their children the

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same directions that I have had to give my son. So I just want to go back to Cory is a person.

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He's a human being. He has a family. He has parents who loved him, who brought him home,

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who cared for him, who poured into him. And when you're raising a young person into adulthood,

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as they mature into adulthood, you begin to see some of those hopes that you have for them realized.

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They become parents. They become career people. They become high school graduates.

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They become college folks. They become union workers. They become all kinds of things.

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And so for me, seeing first getting the call from, you know, when you're a council leadership,

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you get all the phone calls about emergencies. So, you know, I get the phone call.

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And your first inclination is to get online and see what is happening.

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And, you know, I get online to see what is happening. And I see a video of who I will learn later is Cory.

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And I don't I don't see what's happening altogether. There's some cars in a way.

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But I can hear the sounds. I can hear the sounds. I can hear the words taser.

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And I could just hear the shots. And it's the shots that don't escape you.

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And then I finally see videos with a bit more detail. And I'm telling you, I'm like,

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my first thought is when the officer is walking away, why isn't he walking away in cuffs? That's my

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first thought. Because I'm just I'm looking at a Cory who can be a Charles, who can be a Clyde,

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who can be my son. And I'm angry. There's like no way around it. And while we know

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the therapy investigations and all of that, the thing for me is that his his death is final.

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And for us who have lost loved ones and have grieved loved ones or for some of us who may

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be taken a longer path to the passing of a loved one, it is it is a very difficult thing to

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experience. So my thoughts are with his family, his family that nurtured him and poured into him

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because they no longer have him because his death is final. There's no coming back from death. So

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that's where my thoughts have been. I of course want an investigation that's comprehensive,

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that's complete, that's not bullshit. And you know, you want all of those things. And

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I don't want something that's like a six month process or a nine month process. And we often hear

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that, you know, it can be a while. So I want to encourage everybody, not just I want to I guess

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I want to encourage everybody that we should all be encouraging and pushing everyone part of the

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process, push the Department of Criminal Investigations to investigate comprehensively

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and fairly and release information as soon as possible. We should be pushing and advocating

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for our district attorney to charge folks when the community is is reviewing the information

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it may feel through that information we have received the person should be charged. So I want

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you to engage your district attorney or district attorney as well. I want you to engage the

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office of the independent monitor because like DCI, they are, you know, they investigate a body as

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well. Engage them. I want you to engage the police and fire commission. I spent about an

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hour on the phone earlier today from an attorney out of the Milwaukee area and a local community

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member. And she serves for her local bodies, police and fire commission. I want you to file

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complaints with them. I want you to file complaints with our local Madison police department. I want

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you to take every route to justice for Corey. I don't think you should limit yourselves. I want

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you to continue to reach out to the common council. I want you to continue to reach out to the county.

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I want you to reach out to your state legislators because if Corey, who can be Charles, who can be

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Clyde, who can be Jerome, who can be this person in front of me, then if the protocol to go that

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quickly to shoot this gentleman in the head three times, and that is an option, I don't know how

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that is an option. My brain has not been able to put that together as an option because I didn't

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see anything that warranted it. So if this, if we are told later that that was an option because

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of what preceded the shooting, then we need to be advocating at every level of government for these

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kinds of directives to change. I don't think we should end it here, I guess. I think it's at every

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level of government. It is every body, every election, elected folks at every level of government

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that has a responsibility. We have folks who are running for office right now are the folks listening

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talking to those folks. How are they going to respond to this legislatively outside of their

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vote on August 11 or in November? How does this impact what they're doing right now? How does this

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impact the policies they've already drafted and have been running on? Do they respond with

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different policy legislation? Do they just get to say we just want an investigation? Well, if they're

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elected, they have a responsibility to the voters to update legislation around our police and across

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the state. So the last, the other thing I want to say is I've spent a considerable amount of years

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giving back into the community and making myself available in tons of spaces. And I'm mostly

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private because mental health is not something that any of us should take lightly. And I want

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to implore especially other orders to use services available to us. I want to implore community

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members to access resources. My assumption is that Pastor Allen will share some of that.

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But the Behavior Health Center from Dane County is a really great resource and a really great

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confidential resource. I've made a ton of referrals and have had positive successes with them over

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the years. The other thing I want to say about the listening session,

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we would have held that tonight, but overnight or at some point between last night and this morning,

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I learned there's a vigil for core today at five o'clock. So that listening session will not happen

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tonight. I expect to have an update hopefully by Monday morning because, you know, when you're

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reserving city space, there's some logistics that you need to work out first. So I expect to be able

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to give an update by Monday morning. But again, I just want to am by saying that just as a reminder

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that Corey has a family, the family poured into him and Corey's family won't get to see

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his family's hopes and dreams for him. Like the things that we're all sitting here with who likely

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for those of us who have still at least a one living parent, my mother still has hopes and

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dreams for me, you know. So he, his family doesn't get to see those things realized for him. And so

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I've had what 24 hours maybe to process it, but I guess I just, I just want to say that

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that is not this. The only thing I could say is that's not the option that we want available for

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us, if that makes sense. That's, we should, we should, the option option should be off the table.

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And if this option was, I don't believe it was an appropriate option to take. And my hope is that

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the investigation shows that it was not in, you know, maybe, maybe, maybe will, maybe it won't,

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but whatever the outcome is, I think all of us should be advocating for that option to be taken

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off the table and for training to be improved. And maybe we need to be changing our standards

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of what it looks like to know that you're fit to be in our community, serving our community,

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because too often we have a quarry and too often we have a quarry that doesn't allow,

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does not get to sort of his parents does don't get to see their everything that they have for

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him realized. So that's all I have. And Chief Patterson.

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Thank you.

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Good afternoon. I know we have new folks in the, in the room. I want to

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just introduce myself quick, but first, thank you, Mayor and thank you, President Madison,

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for your comments. My name is John Patterson. I'm the Chief of Police of the Madison Police

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Department. I moved here in 1994. I've been a member of this community since then and I've served our

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community for about a year now as your police chief, but I've served as a member of the department

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since 1998. I want to begin by speaking plainly. Yesterday, a young man, a young member of our

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community died after an encounter with one of our officers. He was in his 30s and I know he had a

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family who cared for him and I know he had a community who cared for him. His family is grieving

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today and our entire community, I believe, is grieving alongside them. I don't want to rush

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past that fact to share with you what will come next. I want to take time to outline the process

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for all of you when a death occurs in any community in Wisconsin that involves police.

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This is an open and active homicide investigation right now. In accordance with state statute,

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a long-standing practice, the Madison Police Department has called for a thorough and independent criminal

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investigation into yesterday's shooting. So at the request of us at the MPD, the Wisconsin Department

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of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation has been called DCI by me and others in the past.

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They will lead this homicide investigation. As you know, DCI is a statewide agency. They

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have experience and expertise in these types of situations, these types of situations that involve

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police shootings. So they are fully in charge of this investigation. DCI is fully in charge

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of this investigation. During these investigations, their agents quickly respond to the scene. They

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process it for evidence. They thoroughly document the scene. They analyze video that they can find

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Canvas for video, interview witnesses. They create their own documents. DCI will also release the

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name of the officer who fired his firearm at some point in their investigation and I sincerely

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hope that is soon. Once all of the facts and information have been gathered, DCI will then

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present it to the district attorney's office for that review and decision. So this process exists

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precisely so that no department in Wisconsin investigates itself and its own actions involving

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its community members. I'm not going to stand here today and render a verdict or an opinion

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about what the investigation will find because I believe that will jeopardize what we all want

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which is independence, an independent review. What I can promise you is that this department

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will cooperate fully with DCI and we will not hide from any aspect of this investigation.

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So I've been thinking a lot today about a former chief who led this department for 21 years,

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David Cooper. So long before community policing was a phrase that people seem to use casually

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now, he built this department upon that conviction. He built it upon something he would plainly

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say that you cannot do the job unless you have the support of your community.

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Years after he left office, he wrote something that I'd think this department has to sit with

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very honestly right now. He said that the use of physical force by police is a sacred and public

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trust. He also said that more than the force the department uses the less trust and support

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it has from the people it serves, the more force we use, the less trust we have. That is the tension

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that we are living through right now in this city and I can physically feel it.

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I also want to name something directly because I know this city has not forgotten about it and

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will not be silent about it and I referenced it somewhat yesterday but this shooting happened

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a block and a half from where Tony Robinson was shot and killed by a Madison police officer in 2015.

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It happened near the same corner where Paul Heenan was shot and killed by a police officer

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in Madison in 2012. So three fatal encounters with your police department within roughly 14 years

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on the same handful blocks. I'm not going to stand here and draw a view of conclusion but

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any of the three but I'm saying because I think we all have to recognize it. We have to recognize

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the trauma that this community has gone through is experiencing now again and pretending that

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this is the first time I would ask this community to forget trauma and forget losses endured and

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I will not do that. Trust in this department is not something any of us can assume it is by far

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our greatest commodity. It must be earned continuously and I think it can be lost in a single afternoon.

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The thinnest of trust in this city right now did not start.

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A black body gets shot down in this city. This is a corrupt city. That's right. Have no fear.

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The entire Zionist is here. You understand me? You won't be able to talk today because I'm

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going to keep talking because I was born to talk my talk and walk my walk to. I told these young

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people back here on my way here that we have the power not that batch not that weapon. We have

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the power. All right. You've been watching a news conference with the Madison police department

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and Madison mayor as you saw protesters interrupted that news conference while John Patterson was

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speaking. Once again this is an update on Wednesday's deadly police shooting on Williamson Street.

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Chief Patterson himself commented on the trauma that area has experienced and you saw some of that

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there. Once again on Wednesday afternoon police said an officer shot and killed Corey Ruiz after

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police say he was armed with a knife and injured another officer trying to detain him. Chief Patterson

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says the DCI will eventually release the name of the officer who shot Ruiz and he says he hopes

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it's soon. We will continue to have team coverage today on news right now four five and six plus

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our website channel 3000.com. Earlier if you're just joining us Madison mayor Satya Rhodes Conway

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began this news conference by offering support. She mentioned that people can call the 988

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lifeline if they need to talk about anything. And there is a community listening session that

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is coming up that they touched on that we will tell you more about in our coverage.

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So and she also said as a city community and society we have to do better. This is bringing

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up a lot of feelings of course. We're not that far removed from 2020's Black Lives Matter protests

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and we will have much more on this from all sides of this investigation coming up a news

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we now live at four five six and ten back to your regular programming.

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Very comfortable under 60 it was so nice yesterday as far as the weather went

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little breezy but temps and dew points were nice that'll stick around for today and tomorrow

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then they jump up Saturday Sunday and Monday those dew points approach 70 to even 75 degrees.

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We will have the moisture to work with for potential stronger storms Sunday into Monday

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specifically are the days that we're watching for severe weather chances. Madison's not the

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bullseye let's like go clear that area or even Hayward Wisconsin but this is for most of the

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state of Wisconsin and Minnesota the 15% chance of severe weather so as long as everything comes

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together Sunday could be a busy day and then also Monday although the threat is pretty much

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better to our southeast but still a lot of central and southern Wisconsin included in that 15

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percent chance and again this is high when you're looking