A Democratic point out Senator reported he was assaulted exterior the Wisconsin condition capitol setting up in Madison Tuesday night right after protesters toppled two statues — together with one created by a pioneering female sculptor and an additional of an abolitionist who died combating the Confederacy in the US Civil War.

State Sen. Tim Carpenter instructed a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter at the scene that he was attacked whilst having a photograph of protesters on his way back again to comprehensive some late-night time work at the Capitol. A photo posted on Twitter by the reporter, Lawrence Andrea, showed Carpenter doubled more than on a single knee in apparent soreness adhering to the incident.

“I really do not know what happened… all I did was stop and take a picture, and the subsequent factor I’m receiving 5, six punches, finding kicked in the head,” he reported.

This new spherical of protests in Madison had been sparked by the latest arrest of a black gentleman who entered a cafe around the capitol with a megaphone and a baseball bat.

He was discovered by the Wisconsin Point out Journal as Devonere Johnson, a nearby activist and organizer who was demonstrated on cellphone video adhering to a white buyer inside of the restaurant. In the footage, Johnson calls the male racist, and shouts several profanities by means of the bullhorn he’s carrying.

During the protests Tuesday, attendees toppled Wisconsin’s ‘Forward’ statue, a 7-foot-tall bronze sculpture depicting a woman standing on the prow of a boat. It was made by the artist Jean Pond Miner, and was placed close to the capitol actions in 1895 — ‘an unusual honor for a female of her day,’ in accordance to the Wisconsin Historical Modern society.

Later, the group also dragged away a statue of Col. Christian Heg, an abolitionist who died battling for the Union in the course of the US Civil war. That statue was thrown into a nearby lake, according to the Journal Sentinel.