MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin State Assembly has unanimously passed a resolution condemning political violence, one day after mobs of people stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
Citing the long history of peaceful protest in the United States and the violence that has erupted in Madison and across the country in the last year, Assembly Resolution 4 states political violence in any form has no place in the American system of government and “should never be tolerated.”
During his speech on the floor ahead of the vote, Speaker Robin Vos condemned both the violence in the nation’s capital Wednesday and in Kenosha last year following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
On Wednesday, Governor Tony Evers also condemned the violence at the U.S. Capitol, calling it “an attack on our democracy, period.”
The Assembly’s resolution passed unanimously through a voice vote.
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