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June 25, 2020

Wisconsin State Senator Assaulted as Statues Toppled from Capitol Grounds
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In Wisconsin, Democratic state Senator Tim Carpenter was hospitalized
after he was assaulted on Tuesday during a chaotic night in Madison.
Carpenter said he was punched multiple times and kicked in the head
after he took a brief video of protesters on his phone. On the same
night, a group of people took down two statues in the city - one for the
abolitionist Union Army Colonel Hans Christian Heg and another known as
the "Forward" Statue that has come to represent women's rights. Several
historians questioned why these statues were targeted, but one activist
said the prominent display of those statues creates a "false
representation of what this city is."


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