Group files federal complaints against Madison Police Department over East Towne arrest

The group — which includes University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Gloria Ladson-Billings, Urban League president Ruben Anthony Jr. and local NAACP head Greg Jones — filed official complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin Tuesday via John Vaudreuil, the district’s U.S. attorney, to challenge the “systemic use of excessive force and to create fundamental change” within the MPD.