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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man who drove the car that helped pull down the statue of a Civil War hero and abolitionist outside of the Wisconsin state Capitol during a night of protests in 2020 has been sentenced to six months in jail. The statue of Hans Christian Heg was toppled and beheaded during a protest in downtown Madison in June 2020 against police brutality. Protests began a month earlier over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and flared up again that June after Madison police arrested a Black activist. Kelsey D. Nelson, 33, was sentenced for...

Last night ignorant leftists tore down the statue of Hans Christian Heg in Madison, Wisconsin. They beheaded the statue and then threw it in a lake. Hans Christian Heg was an abolitionist who gave his life to end slavery in America. During their rioting Democrat Senator Tim Carpenter stopped by and took a video of the destruction. The mob turned on him. They punched him, beat him in the head, neck and ribs. They socked him in the left eye and gave him a concussion. There is video of Senator Tim Carpenter before his beatdown. I took this pic- it...

MADISON - Fury exploded outside the Wisconsin State Capitol on Tuesday night as protesters smashed windows at the statehouse, attacked a state senator, and tore down two iconic statues — including one of an abolitionist who died trying to end slavery during the Civil War. The unrest began earlier Tuesday following the arrest of a Black man who was arrested after bringing a megaphone and a baseball bat into a Capitol square restaurant. It followed weeks of mostly peaceful protests of the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed by a white police officer During the melee...