MADISON, Wis. — A Madison man has been accused of using a racial epithet against a Black police officer Sunday morning.
Police said the incident happened at North Carroll Street on Capitol Square shortly before 10:30 a.m.
According to the incident report, officials developed probable cause to arrest 20-year-old Khalid Smiri, who had allegedly been using spray paint to write crude phrases on buildings, a bus shelter and pavement. The report said some of the phrases called for the murder of police officers.
While being arrested, officials said Smiri repeatedly called a Black Madison officer a racial epithet. He also spit at an officer, the report said.
Smiri was taken to jail on tentative charges of criminal damage to property, discharge bodily fluids at a public safety worker and resisting and obstructing.
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