“The whole project is offensive and wrong-headed”

Dave Cieslewicz

The Madison Parks Commission has made a terrible mistake. They’ve allowed a mural to go up in an East Side park lionizing Tony Robinson. Nine years ago, only a couple blocks from that park, Robinson, who had a criminal record, was high on a mixture of hallucinogens and other drugs when he attacked a Madison police officer in a dark stairwell. He was responsible for his own ensuing death.