Madison City Hall Helps BLM Maintain ‘Corey Ruiz Autonomous Zone’ — Nail-Studded Perimeter and All
The city of Madison “is helping them by providing portable toilets and other resources.” … “The city has placed a few trucks to help shield the intersection.”
After stabbing a Madison, Wisconsin, police officer during an apprehension on July 22, an officer shot and killed Corey Durell Ruiz, a 38-year-old ex-con with a lengthy criminal history.
Independent journalist Andy Ngo labeled Ruiz a “violent super predator” with “at least 40 convictions for an array of violent crimes, including battery and robbery.”
Ngo added that Ruiz owed nearly $50,000 in child support to the mother of his child.
Regardless of the circumstances surrounding his death, Ruiz was black, and Black Lives Matter activists — led by civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represented the family of George Floyd — quickly sprang into action.
BLM and leftists in Madison, Wisc. are trying to agitate for 2020-style anti-police riots after violent super predator Corey Ruiz was shot dead after attacking an officer with a knife while resisting arrest.
Ruiz has at least 40 convictions for an array of violent crimes,… pic.twitter.com/iL5vm40uYq
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 25, 2026
July 22, 2026 – Madison, Wisconsin.
Four officers struggle to arrest a man suspected of stealing bikes and checking cars.
During the fight, he pulls a large fixed-blade knife.
One officer is stabbed. A second officer is also injured.
A female officer yells “Taser, Taser,…
— Louis Montoya (@montoyalouis1) July 24, 2026
Reminiscent of Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) — later renamed the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) — which emerged in June 2020 in the aftermath of Floyd’s death, BLM activists established the Corey Ruiz Autonomous Zone (CRAZ) at the location in Madison where the shooting occurred.
BLM and Antifa protesters have blockaded two blocks and, amazingly, The New York Post reported that rather than trying to dismantle the zone, the city of Madison “is helping them by providing portable toilets and other resources.”
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Laura Schulte corroborated the Post’s reporting: “The city has placed a few trucks to help shield the intersection.”
New as of yesterday afternoon, the city has placed a few trucks to help shield the intersection. pic.twitter.com/VtYRgjhPKY
— Laura Schulte (@SchulteLaura) July 28, 2026
The intersection of Baldwin and Willy Streets is still blocked off today, in what I’ve heard referred to as the “Corey Ruiz Autonomous Zone.” pic.twitter.com/3F97elX5oj
— Laura Schulte (@SchulteLaura) July 28, 2026
Below, Schulte shares photos of the nail-studded boards lining the encampment’s perimeter, which are intended to keep people out.
One photo shows a sign that reads, “Protests can be inconvenient. Murder is worse.”
I don’t usually enter the encampment this direction, but there are lots of boards with nails here to keep people out pic.twitter.com/shoLPfWxeY
— Laura Schulte (@SchulteLaura) July 29, 2026
One X user responding to Schulte’s post pointed out the obvious, “It’s absolute insanity that the City of Madison is helping make this street shutdown permanent.”
Local television station WMTV 15 reported that, unsurprisingly, business owners and residents within the zone say they feel “trapped” and frustrated by the ongoing disruption, saying that “the closure is affecting their ability to operate and move freely.”
According to the outlet, the “demonstrators set up barricades made of trash cans, wooden pallets and nails at the intersection of Williamson and Baldwin streets, blocking traffic on the busy mixed-use corridor.”
Needless to say, people are demanding answers. When an encampment is surrounded by nail-studded barriers, trapping residents in their homes and preventing merchants from conducting business, it has moved well beyond the bounds of a peaceful protest.
Yet Madison City Hall is not only allowing this lunacy to continue, but also helping to sustain it. What about the rights of law-abiding residents, business owners, and visitors who must live and work in the area? Imagine if someone inside the zone needs emergency medical care or police assistance.
Residents deserve clear answers from city officials. The city cannot allow this to continue.
Where is @GovEvers ?
Where is @MayorOfMadison ?
Nearly a week of barricades on Williamson Street.
Businesses hurt. Residents trapped. Emergency vehicles blocked.
Lots of talk about “transparency.”
Almost nothing about opening the roads.
Do your jobs. Open the streets.… pic.twitter.com/r1TJtTFXnO— mandala (@mandala_mandy) July 28, 2026
Those interested in the legality — or, more accurately, the potential illegality — of the city’s decision to assist the “protesters” may be interested in a short X thread by Wisconsin attorney Dan Lennington. In it, he cites the city ordinances, state and federal laws, and constitutional protections that may apply to the situation currently unfolding in Madison.
Short thread on the legality of the Madison Protests. The City has confirmed that two streets will be closed "until further notice." The City is actually blocking the streets apparently to aid the protesters (not to protect them). Photo: @SchulteLaura pic.twitter.com/spT55FoZOW
— Dan Lennington (@DanLennington) July 29, 2026
First, Madison City Ordinance prohibits obstructing streets pic.twitter.com/dNYRULz1W0
— Dan Lennington (@DanLennington) July 29, 2026
Second, state law prohibits blocking roadways and highways. Certain conduct is a misdemeanor pic.twitter.com/P8XtVFfKks
— Dan Lennington (@DanLennington) July 29, 2026
Third, some protesters were caught on camera stating that they were targeting white-owned businesses. Link below. It is a federal crime to shut down a bar or restaurant because of the owner’s race. 18 USC 245. No word from the Trump Admin on this.https://t.co/nHpxNecJU5 pic.twitter.com/RNYwcUp24P
— Dan Lennington (@DanLennington) July 29, 2026
Fourth, victims of racial violence or intimidation by the protesters can sue under both 42 USC 1982 and 1985, which have been used to obtain damages against racially motivated protesters/vandals. pic.twitter.com/aD95xBXEUX
— Dan Lennington (@DanLennington) July 29, 2026
Fifth, the Constitutional right to travel is an ancient right, deeply rooted in history. The Sixth Circuit found that a City can violate this right by obstructing the free movement of people. Is Madison violating the US Constitution? Someone may need to sue. pic.twitter.com/zkTa7OoneU
— Dan Lennington (@DanLennington) July 29, 2026
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Why should a law suit be necessary to get officials to enforce the law? This is beyond prosecutorial discretion- this borders on insurrection, madness, and malfeasance.
This is what the people voted for in true blue Madison and this is what the people get. You have only yourselves to blame.
The people can vote all they want. Theoretically, our federal, state, and local governments are bound to not comply with the will of the people when what the people demand is illegal or unconstitutional.
That’s fine, but I don’t want to pay one dime towards helping them fix all the crap that’s going to get destroyed by these violent leftists.
Who does but I trust you’re old enough to know you have absolutely no choice what you end up paying for and how much for that matter. It sucks but that is how it is and it is only getting worse,
Luckily, they have a mansion to attach now.
Wait till the college kids retire and join in
Illegality? Please. When have these agitators ever seen justice?
You get the justice you make in this country
Racist Woke BLM rioters in Madison caught on video discussing how they’re ONLY going to target WHITE-owned businesses.
“He be black, so he always be de victim.”
Racist morons. Idiot city.
“After stabbing a Madison, Wisconsin, police officer during an apprehension on July 22, an officer shot and killed Corey Durell Ruiz, a 38-year-old ex-con with a lengthy criminal history.”
Watch your dangle.
Another tool for the communist BLM to exploit for recruiting, aided by the parasites of the demonrat party ruling Madison.
To be clear a group of people have declared themselves and the.area they illegally occupied to be autonomous of the City of Madison, the State of WI and USA …all the while restraining Constitutional rights of US Citizens who live and work within this ‘autonomous zone’ and the surrounding area.
Seems like an easy call for the President to order the immediate surrender and if possible arrest of these insurgents/revolutionaries/terrorists/Brigands engaged completely unconstitutional actions to subvert the govt of the USA. Electronic surveillance should have already begun on the City/State leadership/officials offering any support to build the case for their eventual prosecution as well.
Start treating these events like it is a minor inconvenience and instead ask; what would Pinochet do? Unless we want to normalize this declaration of ‘autonomy’ as no big deal …in which case the Confederate States would like a word.
Democrats wouldn’t recognize a GENUINE insurrection if it hit them in the head with nails.
It’s the “Corey Ruiz Autonomous Partition.”
An “autonomous zone” is by definition an insurrection, even if only a tiny one. Trump should react accordingly.
If I were the president right now, first I’d send a friendly reporter to interview these people and their leadership and ask them specifically “You say this is an ‘autonomous zone’; autonomous of what?”, so as to get them on record saying that it’s autonomous of the USA. “So you’re saying that these two blocks are temporarily not part of the USA?” “What do you mean temporarily?”
Then, having got this statement on record, I’d call the mayor and demand that the police clear the zone out and arrest all participants within 12 hours. When they don’t do that, maybe escalate it to the governor. When he does nothing either, send the troops in.
Arrest everyone involved and charge them with insurrection. Use all the tools they used to track down the Jan-6-2001 protesters. If the porta-potties and shield trucks were not withdrawn immediately upon the first call to the mayor, find out who’s responsible for the decision to station them there, and arrest that person or those people. Find which policemen and/or city workers have been helping them, and charge them too. Make an example of them.
I don’t disagree but just imagine how the media and the democrats will react. My head hurts just contemplating it.
Are you suggesting the media and lefty talking heads would offer sympathetic reactions that veered into subversion/sedition? Last I checked the sedition acts are still on the books. The defendants are obviously free to raise objections on 1A grounds … but that won’t stop an arrest and detention. Might not even stop civil asset forfeiture of equipment at their broadcast center or even their ‘broadcast rights’/FCC license until things get cleared up in court later on, much later due to crowded dockets. Be a shame if any of those folks made a furtive movement and didn’t make it to booking much less trial. Probably wanna transfer them to Gitmo while DoJ reviews whether they need to pursue treason charges, shouldn’t take much longer than a few months to decide, can’t be too careful after all. / S(?)
They’re unconstitutional, and any attempt to enforce them would be begging for a court to slap it down with sanctions against the prosecutor.
Note, however, that a lot of them, if you read the fine print, aren’t really about sedition but about conspiracy to commit actual violence, which is of course not protected.
Maybe/Maybe not (probably in fairness) though that doesn’t defeat the arrest at the point of arrest, it comes afterwards. The rule of thumb is ‘you can beat the charge but not the ride to jail’.
Even then golly gee whjz;
‘Unfortunately Your Honor we are unable to return the detainees b/c their fully laden aircraft transport was lost at sea over the Bermuda Triangle. Had to turn off transponders and reroute the very long way to Gitmo due to up tick in piracy’.
Chief, but you’ll get sanctions against the prosecutor who ordered the arrest for a crime he knows doesn’t exist. Better stick to the actual law. Insurrection is still a crime, and as I said, an “autonomous zone” is an insurrection by definition, albeit a very tiny one. A micro-insurrection, but an insurrection nonetheless. Don’t waste the opportunity that offers.
Let me clarify b/c there seems to be confusion.
1. Insurrection charges for the morons in the ‘autonomous zone’.
2. Conspiracy charges for those who aid them and support them.
3. Maybe treason charges just as a test if nothing else; insurrection seems pretty treasonous.
4. Sedition charges for media/talking heads that Ztakddot predicted would lose their hyperbolic minds.
Chief, 3 & 4 won’t fly. Treason won’t fly because these insurrectionists are not making war on the USA. Unless they actually fire on US troops, they’re not making war and thus can’t be charged with treason.
Charging people in the news industry with sedition will torpedo the entire project. The prosecutor who brings such charges will very likely be sanctioned by the courts. And the news industry will make the whole story about them, distracting attention from the actual insurrection.
In addition, if you deliberately ignore the constitution you lose your case against the insurrection. Now you’re not coming to the battlefield (literal or metaphorical) with clean hands. Remember this is only technically an insurrection, whereas what you’re proposing is a much more real insurrection — a deliberate violation of the constitution that is what makes the USA. So it’s counterproductive.
Properly handled, this autonomous zone is a gift. I hope and pray that Trump exploits it to the fullest, without pushing too far and losing it.
Just to emphasize, this is only technically an insurrection. It’s not a “real” insurrection, as that word is usually used. As Whoopi Goldberg might put it, it’s not an “insurrection” insurrection. But technicalities count. It fits the definition of insurrection, and Trump should take full advantage of that.
Milhouse,
Pretty sure the last use of Sedition Acts in early 20th century was upheld by a unanimous SCOTUS. Obviously much has changed in judicial philosophy since the early 20th century …but it does mean that in terms of constitutionality the sedition act provisions remain ‘good law’ …at least until SCOTUS directly reverses itself and every inferior district and circuit Court is required to apply that valid SCOTUS precedent.
You’re not getting my point about pushing the stakes higher with these charges. There’s only one way they stick and that’s to go full Pinochet and to be very clear using the means of Pinochet’s example results in those means winning every argument b/c so long as long someone is willing to employ force then force wins.
As for sanctions … nope it wont be done under normal processes but under a Pinochet doctrine. The Judiciary gonna be ‘sequestered’ out of an abundance of caution in a secure location. Hopefully they won’t be poisoned while trying to escape. Assuming they make it there intact and ‘bandits’ didn’t get the blame for wiping out the convoy.
Insurrection is insurrection. There’s no such thing as a ‘little’ treason. It is or it isn’t. There’s no difference between the declaration of these autonomous zones and the declarations of the confederates other than scale.
Chief, in the early 20th century it was as if the first amendment didn’t exist. That’s when we got the infamous Schenck decision, with Holmes’s infamous line about falsely crying “fire” in a theater.
What people don’t get is that that decision has been thoroughly repudiated in every detail, and is not good law. It’s one of the most shameful decisions in the court’s history, and Holmes’s line, which people are still quoting to this day, was a pure piece of demagoguery. Anyone who uses that line today needs to be reminded that he is defending putting people in prison for protesting the draft. Because that is what it was about.
The relevant decisions are those striking down the laws against the Communist Party in the 1950s. They made clear that advocating the violent overthrow of the United States is protected speech.
“My head hurts just contemplating it.”
Me, I get a pow’ful hankerin’ foh popcorn.
Not mine. My heart leaps up at the image. You’re on one side or the other here. And if you’ve taken an oath of office (mayor, governor) or service (police) and you have violated that oath, you are supposed to be punished for that. Expulsions, fines, and being enjoined from ever holding or influencing a public office again seem mild, but doable.
100%
So this is what the Mamdopy DSA fans want? Total lawless zones where people can freely attack anyone they decide is inferior to them. That’s what abolish prisons, borders and ICE leads to. Of course thses idiots invoke hating on Jews as well in their official statement, incrediously blaming Israel for this violent criminals death. How about holding him accountable for stabing a police officer?
How would you feel if this illegal roadblock prevented you from driving to your home or business?
looks like a perfect location for a late night cruise in my old d8—nothing fancy—3 mph or so (walking speed) and just mosey on through their little barricade—black litter moved
Good shooting officer! One less turd in society, preying on innocents.
Who is helping Madison City Hall? If you had given some ink to SoS Rubio’s speeches the last couple of months you would have the answer: Cuba.
Refer to the US State Department report: Cuba, the capital of 21st century Communism. An excerpt:
Today, Cuban agents and operatives maintain a foothold in hundreds of front groups, activist organizations, solidarity centers, and ideological NGO and nonprofit networks. These groups collectively represent one of the single largest, most sophisticated and dangerous vectors for hostile foreign influence in modern American history. Many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history – from the George Floyd riots to the rise of Antifa to the explosion of pro-terrorist activism on American college campuses – can be linked, in some way, shape, or form, to Cuban influence.
Was anyone surprised there were Cuban military casualties in Venezuela during the Maduro raid? It’s looking like Team Trump is on the right track to put these BLM types out of business for good — because they understand the problem.
But the Venezuelans were paying the Cubans (at least in oil). I can’t imagine the Cubans are flush enough to be funding local commie front groups like BLM, and I can’t see BLM paying the Cubans for anything they have to offer. So I don’t see the possible money trail here.
I have little to no sympathy for the people of Madisonistan. They voted for this sort of “leadership”; now they got it — good and hard. And they are about to vote for more of the same with that Hong DSA candidate. Sorry to the normies who are caught up in this, but if you live in Madison (or Seattle, Minneapolis, et al) you should know what you’re walking into. This is what you get when you want to subscribe to “social justice”. In the system espoused by the Left, criminals will always have more rights than non-criminals. Understand that and maybe you will understand what you’re voting for.
Move the blockade to in front of the dem headquarters. Pretty sure that would motivate them a bit, but not too much.
After all the new pick had two kids with his second cousin. Must be something in the water in Maine.
https://x.com/TheMaineWire/status/2082916015072072181?s=46
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RELATIVE ATTRACTION: We can confirm that Troy Jackson and his longtime partner are second cousins.
They have two children together
Second cousin means you are related through a great grandparent and share roughly 1/8 of your DNA. That isn’t ideal but it is probably okay and it is certainly legal. I don’t even know any of my second cousins. I;m more concerned about his politics which as you would suspect are abysmal,
In the spirit of the cold war, can we refer to it as a DNZ?