Madison police shoot man with knife during arrest; protests erupt

One man in his 30s was shot and killed by police; one officer was injured by a knife during the incident.

On a Madison street already marked by the memory of a 2015 police killing, another man in his 30s was shot and killed by officers responding to a vehicle break-in call — a moment that has once again forced a city to reckon with the distance between law enforcement's account of necessary force and a community's accumulated grief. The officer who fired had been wounded by a knife the suspect produced during the arrest; a taser had failed; and within minutes, cellphone video was circulating before the victim's name was known. As state investigators take the lead and the governor calls for transpa

Madison police shoot man with knife during arrest; protests erupt

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