Q: How things are going out in Madison right now? What have you seen and experienced over the past week?
A: As you alluded, up until today we’ve had five days of peaceful and powerful protests downtown, largely on the Capitol Square. The first three nights of those were followed by some violence and looting of businesses that are also located close to the Capitol. There’s a retail street that connects [the University of Wisconsin–Madison] campus with the Capitol called State Street. It’s an automobile-free street, and that’s where most of the looting and damage to property has taken place.