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If we did not live in bizarro world, this would be the AP article:

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Within hours of a black convicted felon attacking a white officer who was forced to shoot him to his death, the police chief of Wisconsin’s capital city was praying with the officer’s mother as the officer was treated at a local hospital for injuries received in the attack.

Chief Mike Koval said he knows Madison is being watched across the nation due to the strange terms of the felony conviction for armed robbery that allowed Tony Robinson to be out of jail and able to commit more crimes. He has gone out of his way to avoid comparisons to Massachusetts and the controversial releases of dangerous criminals like Willie Horton.

“Folks are angry, resentful, mistrustful, disappointed, shocked, chagrined. I get that,” Koval said Saturday. “People need to tell me squarely how upset they are with the Madison Court system.”

The contrasts with Massachusetts are many.

While Massachusettes courts initially gave little information about the release of Willie Horton, a convicted murderer, Koval rushed to the home of the officers mother. She didn’t want to meet with him, he said, but he talked and prayed with the officer’s grandmother in the driveway for 45 minutes.

It took a week for Massachusetts to release the name of the convict who attacked a Maryland couple while out on furlough. Koval announced the name of the felon involved in Madison, Tony Robinson, the day after the attack on the officer that led to the shooting. He volunteered to reporters that Robinson had been involved in a home invasion just 5 month prior in October 2014, and that he had been convicted of armed robbery.

“We have a police chief who genuinely feels for an officers family. It should be abundantly clear to anyone following this incident that Madison, Wisconsin, is not Massachusetts,” said Jim Palmer, executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, the state’s largest police union.

But the chief’s measured approach hasn’t impressed some demonstrators. Koval angered some of them earlier this year with a blog post demanding they stop blaming the courts for lax sentencing.

“There are no apologies that can fix the danger this officer faced,” said Brandi Grayson, an organizer with Young, Gifted and Employeed, a Madison group that has demonstrated against what it says is lax sentencing of criminals by the justice system. “This was bound to happen. There’s nothing the chief can say short of changing the system.”