Hi, everyone! I& #39;m highestwinds, a longtime resident of Madison WI who& #39;s recently used this platform to provide live police scanner, community meeting, & protest reports in solidarity with the Madison uprising.

Here& #39;s a TBU thread of all my livetweet threads and narrative work.
1) From the first day of action in Madison WI, I& #39;ve provided reports of publicly accessible police scanner communications to contextualize ground activity.

This thread is over 2,000 tweets long: make sure to check tweet replies for thread continuations. https://twitter.com/highestwinds/status/1266780194393784320">https://twitter.com/highestwi...
(Another important note: my current scanner threads are individualized and marked by date. I no longer update the above thread. Please refer to it for posterity and historical accountability only!)
2) I& #39;ve also provided analyses of MPD& #39;s failure to protect Black protesters & other Madison citizens at the scenes of Madison& #39;s recent hate crimes. This thread will be updated soon; I temporarily stopped when Rodney Freeman Jr. ("RJ") was found in Monona. https://twitter.com/highestwinds/status/1275224052173623314">https://twitter.com/highestwi...
3) I live-reported the June 16th Madison Common Council meeting, into which citizens across the country called to oppose a budget allocation that would expand MPD& #39;s chemical weapon arsenal and to support an MPD independent oversight committee. https://twitter.com/highestwinds/status/1273036820280991744">https://twitter.com/highestwi...
4) I& #39;ve also reported many recent community conversations w/ MPD. This thread transcribes MPD Captain Kelly Donahue& #39;s dialogue with Capitol Neighborhoods, Inc., in which she discusses protest response & addresses the concerns of downtown business owners. https://twitter.com/highestwinds/status/1280652432259919877">https://twitter.com/highestwi...
5) This thread documents another conversation between Captain Donahue & Downtown Madison, Inc. about Madison protests.

(Note: I made an error by branching off the wrong tweet, splitting the thread momentarily. Please see the replies for the full thread.) https://twitter.com/highestwinds/status/1281303688074727424">https://twitter.com/highestwi...
(This reply here is where the Downtown Madison, Inc. conversation from the above tweet continues correctly.) https://twitter.com/highestwinds/status/1281304048961048576">https://twitter.com/highestwi...
6) I also reported the July 14th Madison Common Council meeting, during which Madison residents discussed the formation of a Black-led task force to address Madison& #39;s racial disparities. This was a context-heavy conversation: see embedded thread for more. https://twitter.com/highestwinds/status/1283180042651144195">https://twitter.com/highestwi...
7) I recently attended a public conversation between the Madison Public Safety Review Committee and MPD Chief Vic Wahl + Captain Mindy Winter, focusing on the reasoning/ethics/policies behind MPD standard operating protocols & its recent protest response. https://twitter.com/highestwinds/status/1283535914082476033">https://twitter.com/highestwi...
Meetings & action happens frequently in Madison WI. I will continue to update this thread beyond its original posting on 7/19.

As an aside, if you wish to support this informal work, I am temporarily accepting Venmo donations (link may be down later). https://twitter.com/highestwinds/status/1281282422487818245">https://twitter.com/highestwi...
On 7/21, I reported the Common Council& #39;s votes on the implementation of a $250,000 "Downtown Recovery Program," which would have funded a "business equity" initiative & provided repair for downtown businesses who suffered property damage in May/June 2020. https://twitter.com/highestwinds/status/1285717405763854336?fbclid=IwAR1eoVAvxBwW9Sn6V3T77m3RsViT2loKrH8DV6e_n7EiwXPw8-BXNDk7oYg">https://twitter.com/highestwi...
On 8/4, I transcribed the Common Council Executive Committee& #39;s conversation and vote on Alder Prestigiacomo& #39;s ordinance that would have banned tear gas, mace, and impact munition from MPD& #39;s arsenal. https://twitter.com/highestwinds/status/1290763515867860992">https://twitter.com/highestwi...
In the late hours of 8/23 and early hours of 8/24, I monitored the Kenosha police scanner in solidarity with the Kenoshan community response to Jacob Blake& #39;s shooting.

You can find every update, including a few ground photos, in this thread: https://twitter.com/highestwinds/status/1297724596192501765">https://twitter.com/highestwi...
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