>> PROTESTS OVER GEORGE FLOYD'S
DEATH AT THE HANDS OF
MINNEAPOLIS POLICE HAVE MAINLY
BEEN IN WISCONSIN'S LARGER
METROPOLITAN AREAS.
NOW GAINING TRACTION IN SMALLER
CITIES LIKE THIS PROTEST IN
WAUSAU.
THE CITY'S THIRD PROTEST IN A
WEEK.
SOME 1500 PROTESTORS MARCHED
DOWNTOWN CHANTING FOR AN END TO
POLICE BRUTALITY.
>> BLACK LIVES MATTER.
>> IN MILWAUKEE THIS WEEK,
THOUSANDS TURNED OUT FOR A
PROTEST LED BY BUCKS PLAYER
STERLING BROWN.
THOSE ON THE STREET SAID THEY
FEEL A SENSE OF CONNECTION TO A
NATIONWIDE MOVEMENT.
ISSUES OF RACE AND INEQUALITY IN
THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES.
THIS WEEK DEMONSTRATORS IN
DOWNTOWN MADISON PAINTED A HUGE
YELLOW BLOCK LETTERS DEFUND
POLICE.
THOSE WORDS APPEAR ALONG M.L.K.,
JR. BOULEVARD JUST DOWN FROM THE
STATE CAPITOL BUILDING.
SEVERAL OF THE GROUPS PROTESTING
HAVE EXPRESSED DEFUNDING OR
DISMANTLING THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT IS A PRIORI