A Democratic condition Senator said he was assaulted outside the house the Wisconsin point out capitol setting up in Madison Tuesday night time right after protesters toppled two statues — like one particular produced by a revolutionary female sculptor and a different of an abolitionist who died battling the Confederacy in the US Civil War.

Condition Sen. Tim Carpenter instructed a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter at the scene that he was attacked when taking a photo of protesters on his way back again to total some late-night time perform at the Capitol. A image posted on Twitter by the reporter, Lawrence Andrea, showed Carpenter doubled about on a single knee in apparent agony subsequent the incident.

“I never know what happened… all I did was prevent and consider a photo, and the subsequent issue I’m receiving five, six punches, finding kicked in the head,” he mentioned.

This new round of protests in Madison were sparked by the new arrest of a black person who entered a restaurant near the capitol with a megaphone and a baseball bat.

He was identified by the Wisconsin Condition Journal as Devonere Johnson, a neighborhood activist and organizer who was shown on cellphone video subsequent a white shopper within the cafe. In the footage, Johnson calls the gentleman racist, and shouts a variety of profanities by way of the bullhorn he’s carrying.

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

Later on, the group also dragged absent a statue of Col. Christian Heg, an abolitionist who died combating for the Union during the US Civil war. That statue was thrown into a nearby lake, in accordance to the Journal Sentinel.