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A Corey Ruiz Street Memorial Expresses Outrage and Solidary
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Activists gather at a Corey Ruiz memorial to offer condolences and seek accountability.
In the wake of a police officer shooting and killing Corey Ruiz, activists in Madison gather around a makeshift memorial to offer condolences, seek accountability and help others who are down and out.
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A Corey Ruiz Street Memorial Expresses Outrage and Solidary
Clip: Season 2500 Episode 2505 | 4m 58sVideo has Closed Captions
In the wake of a police officer shooting and killing Corey Ruiz, activists in Madison gather around a makeshift memorial to offer condolences, seek accountability and help others who are down and out.
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>> 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.
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