The values and priorities of the people responsible for this display of warped ethics are so alien to me that they might as well come from a different dimension.
It all begins with the fatal shooting of Corey Ruiz this week in Madison, Wisconsin. At this point, it’s difficult to get the facts of the shooting without it being framed by anti-law enforcement and pro-perp narrative. As far as I can determine, Ruiz was another habitual thief, thug and scofflaw: Wisconsin public records show that Ruiz had 40 misdemeanor and felony convictions from 2009 to 2025, including robbery by force, strangulation, drug possession, vehicle theft and battery of a public safety worker, according to the records. He was most recently convicted of resisting law enforcement and drug paraphernalia possession.
[The source I was able to get that information from adds, “Jazzman Brown, a community organizer in Madison, said Ruiz was a father who was experiencing homelessness and mental health struggles.” Oh! Well, that means he can rob and beat up people then. Never mind. Seriously: I don’t care how much of a troubled life the deceased may or may not have had.]
Police officers were dispatched to Madison’s Marquette neighborhood in response to reports of someone stealing bicycles and checking vehicle doors. It was Ruiz. When officers attempted to approach him, he fled on a bicycle, riding through backyards to escape, Ruiz either fell or was pulled off the bicycle, then fought with officers to resist arrest. During the struggle, Ruiz pulled out a substantial fixed-blade knife and injured one of the officers. Ruiz was tazed, but it appeared to have no effect. Then an officer fired three shots into the man, killing him.
I have no sympathy for the deceased at all. Anyone who believes his death justifies a protest (or worse, a law suit, or worse still, the prosecution of a police officer) is crippled by poor logic, bias, and absurd anti-law enforcement attitudes.
Nonetheless, AtwoodFest, an annual music and crafts festival with free admission featuring 3 stages, and 30 bands with food and craft vendors, was cancelled by organizers with this nauseating announcement:
Ethics Alarms 
At least the message and messengers are clear if you are “of color” you may do anything and if natural consequences come your way we’ll canonize you and leverage your demise to the max. Meanwhile we will incoherently cancel events that were ostensibly to raise money for “the community” because protesting something which does not truly deserve to be protested is the highest form of public virtue signaling.
From my li’l corner of The 77 Square Miles surrounded By A Sea Of Reality, that ’bout sums it up.
PWS
The conspiracy theorist in me couldn’t help but speculate that maybe a bunch of the music acts canceled their appearances, so rather than just say that, the organizers took the opportunity to “pin the tail on the police.”
In what respect was Ruiz “a father?” He doesn’t seem to have been working to support his children. They don’t appear to have been living with him. Certainly he doesn’t seem to have been providing a moral example in their lives. When we revere parenthood it’s because it’s generally understood to come with deep obligations, and it’s faithfulness to those obligations that is meritorious.
I’m not sure the mere failure to use condoms counts as some kind of virtue.
He was somebody’s “baby daddy.”
the father of one or more of a woman’s children, especially one who is not her husband or current partner: “he is just a baby daddy”
FTR, it’s been reported that Ruiz stole the bike.
Atwoodfest wasn’t the only venue sacrificed to the altar of LaLaLoopyLoonyLeftyLand; the long-standing and wildly popular Concerts On The Square was “cancelled” by (and I’m being charitable) shrieking Lefty imbeciles, and Saturday’s many-splendored Farmer’s Market shortened its hours.
The kicker? The decades in the making, comical monument to municipal impotency, epic taxpayer sinkhole Public Market had actually scheduled an opening.
Guess what happened…?
PWS
I’m well known as the ACAB member of the commentary community here. This story makes me mad. This shooting, if it even closely resembles the reporting, is absolutely justified.
This “Boy who cried wolf” crap detracts from the legitimate cases. It harms the cause, not helps it.
A pox on them all.