'THIS IS A REVOLUTION'.

• Author: Leanza, Emilio
• Position: ON THE LINE

The police showed up in full riot gear. Behind them, a line of National Guard members, dressed in beige camo, stood ready to intervene. Someone from the crowd would hurl a plastic water bottle in their direction, leading to another round of tear gas, another wave of panic and fear as the eye-searing chemical covered the streets in a thick haze.

For three nights in Madison, Wisconsin, the weekend after the murder of George Floyd, this was routine: Hundreds of young Black Lives Matter activists would march on downtown Madison's main artery, State Street, to demand racial justice in the country's most...