Published: 16 June 2021
Open Signal had a wall. The Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) had experience creating murals. Salvador Mayoral, who facilitates RACC’s Public Art Murals Program, recalls how Fresh Paint, got its start. “We were looking for a high visibility spot for a temporary mural pilot project,” he said. Open Signal’s Director of Strategy, Rebecca Burrell, remembers,
“We were looking for a way to bring visibility to our mission and bring more art into our neighborhood.”
The two organizations joined forces and, Fresh Paint, the partnership to provide Black and brown artists a place to become muralists, kicked off in 2017. Since then, 10 artists have been selected to paint a temporary mural on an exterior wall of Open Signal’s building facing the highly visible Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Each mural is hosted for at least four months and then painted over in preparation for the next artist.
State Rep. David Bowen introduced a dozen police reform bills in Madison on Thursday, saying bipartisan measures moving through the legislature do not go far enough.
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No-knock warrants allow law enforcement officers to enter a building without announcing their presence, a tactic critics say is dangerous and should be restricted.
The story of Breonna Taylor, a Kentucky woman who was shot and killed by police in her home last year, galvanized the nation and brought one particular law enforcement practice the use of no-knock warrants under scrutiny. No-knock warrants authorize police officers to enter a home without first knocking and announcing their presence.
For state Rep. LaKeshia Myers (D-Milwaukee), the first time she heard about no-knock warrants was in the wake of Taylor’s death.
State Rep. David Bowen introduces 12 new police reform bills
Bowen says work of bipartisan task force doesn t go far enough Share Updated: 5:10 PM CDT Jun 3, 2021 Matt Smith
Bowen says work of bipartisan task force doesn t go far enough Share Updated: 5:10 PM CDT Jun 3, 2021
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Show Transcript ENOH ISUGNOUGH. MATT: ON THE STEPS OF THE STATE CAPITOL. WE NEED THIS NOW. MATT: A STRONG AND PUBLIC REBUKE OF THE POLICE REFORM BILLS COMING FROM A BIPARTISAN COMMISSION AFTER THE JACOB BLAKE SHOOTING IN KENOSHA. AND IF YOU WILL EXCUSE MY LANGUAGE, THESE POOR BILLDOS NOT MEET THE DESIRES OF THIS COMMUNITY. MA:TT THURSDAY REPRESENTATIVE DAVID BOWEN INTRODUCED 12 NEW BILLS. WHICH IN PART WOULD LIMIT THE WER OF POLICE UNIONS, INVEST IN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND REQUIRE A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO INVESTIGATE POLICE SHOOTINGS INSTEAD OF THE LOCAL DISTRICT ATTORNEY. GIVEN THE MAKEUP OF THE LEGISLATURE, WILL ANY OF THESE BILLS MA