Warning: This video contains sounds of gunfire.

“Who died today?” asked a protestor.

“Corey!” rang the reply from a crowd of demonstrators

“Who was murdered today?,” she asked.

“Corey!” the group chanted. “We want the officer’s name tonight and we want him arrested!” declared another protestor

A march swelled the main traffic artery leading to the Wisconsin State Capitol on the afternoon of July 22, soon after a Madison police officer shot and killed Corey Ruiz during an arrest.

“We all witnessed on social media last night a human being take the life of another human being, said a protester the next day at a city press conference about the shooting.

“We were all there,” said another.

Outrage over what online footage showed led community members to disrupt that press conference and an event at the Capitol the previous evening.

“A lot of these faces don’t even care,” said one protestor to attendees at Concerts on the Square, which would end up being canceled. “What is going on is wrong, but yet y’all sitting here with stale faces.”

Police say officers responded to a call of a man checking parked vehicles. After he attempted to flee, a physical altercation ensued. One officer attempted to use a taser, which failed. Police say Ruiz injured an officer with a knife before that officer opened fire.

“When you see someone shot on camera and the shooting happens within a matter of, you know, one, two, three seconds, that is angering and it’s horrifying and it is heartbreaking,” said Sabrina Madison, president of the Madison Common Council.

“I want to be clear. It does not matter who you are or what your past is. You should not lose your life as a result of an encounter with law enforcement. That should not happen,” said Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway.

City officials responded to calls for accountability on July 23.

“My first thought is when the officer is walking away, why isn’t he walking away in cuffs? That’s my first thought,” Madison said.

“It’s really understandable that people want answers right now. I want them too. But the honest truth is that good investigations take time. We have to let the investigation play out,” Rhodes-Conway said.

“This is an open and active homicide investigation right now,” said Madison Police Department Chief John Patterson.

The investigation is being led by the Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation.

“They are hunting us. They are hunting us,” said a protestor.

“I think everyone in this room can feel the thinness of trust in this city right now, right? I can feel it. It did not start yesterday and it’s not abstract. It’s a direct result, I think, of what our community has gone through and we have watched repeat,” Patterson said, referencing other police shootings in the neighborhood over the past decade-and-a-half.

“This shooting happened a block and a half from where Tony Robinson was shot and killed by a Madison police officer in 2015. It happened near the same corner where Paul Heenan was shot and killed by a police officer in Madison in 2012. So three fatal encounters with your police department within roughly 14 years on the same handful of blocks,” Paterson continued.

“This is not new to Madison. This is the third death of a Black man on Willy Street. This is not new. That’s why when we say, ‘No justice’ we mean ‘No peace,'” said a protestor.

“There’s not enough de-escalation, there are poor training methods, and then there is a tendency to go to the most lethal form of subduing somebody as possible,” said Yogesh Chawla, who is a member of the Dane County Board of Supervisors. “When you pull out a gun, someone is going to die, and we’ve seen it happen time and time again, and we need that to change now.”

Many in the community are calling for all officers to wear body cameras, and wondering why the department isn’t already deploying them.

“As you know, we don’t have a broad deployment of body-worn cameras in Madison. And I understand that this fact does create another challenge to repairing trust in our community,” Patterson said.

“The community advocated against implementation of body-wearing cameras for some years. And then more importantly, more recently, the community took a different turn and supports body-worn cameras,” Madison said. “In the time that I’ve been on the council, the support for body-worn cameras has increased and they’ll be funded. I’m confident that they’ll be funded.”

Madison’s police chief shared a similar forecast.

“We’re not going to wait for a final report from DCI to begin the work of examining our policies, our training and response. We’re going to do that now,” Patterson said.

Others said they would continue to offer protests.

“We’ll be here every night until we get justice for the family,” Chawla said.

“‘There’s a collective anger, there’s a collective pain, and there’s a collective loss,” Madison said.

“Say his name!” called a protestor.

“Corey!” came the response.

“Say his name!,” he repeated.

“Corey!”