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Roughly 40 demonstrators gathered at the Dane County Public Safety Building, holding a sign that reads “Hands off Black Women” to protest MPD’s arrest of Genele Laird, an 18-year-old black woman.
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Protest follows 'unfair' arrest of 18-year-old black woman

The Madison Police Department arrested an 18-year-old black woman Tuesday afternoon at East Towne Mall. The arrest, which family and friends of the woman labeled “unfair” and violent, later led to a protest organized by members of Freedom Inc. inside the Dane County Public Safety Building.



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