Initial story: 13-Aug-2017
Herbert Wilkins blocked the sidewalk and grabbed people.
A Madison man causing a disturbance Tuesday evening Downtown tried to run from police but his pants fell down, causing him to run into a parked car while police made the arrest.Herbert Wilkins was obstructing the sidewalk on the 300 block of West Dayton Street by refusing to allow pedestrians to walk past him without grabbing them. Another newspaper with the same storyThe incident wasn't over, however, as Herbert Wilkins, 54, allegedly spit at police and EMTs while being taken into custody, Madison police said.
Previous stories
28-Mar-2016 Herbert Wilkins and Eric Wink got into a fight.
It started when Wilkins, a black man, allegedly pushed and choked a 19-year-old white woman, with Wink, a white man, coming to help the woman."His assistance actually contributed to escalating matters, with his use of a contemptuous word to describe an African American," said police spokesman Howard Payne. Officers moved in to break up the fight while Wink allegedly kept yelling "White power", besides other racial epithets.
Officers tried to get Wilkins to calm down as he was being arrested, which allegedly changed his focus from Wink to the police.
"He thrashed around while being handcuffed and spit more than two dozen times at officers," Payne said. "Fortunately the officers had protective shields."
5-June-2014 Herbert Wilkins licked the face of a 59-year old woman and knocked her to the ground
(in Appleton) Wilkins has criminal convictions in Green Bay, Chicago and Minneapolis that include multiple sexual assaults of minor and adult females. He was civilly committed to a mental health institution in 2006 and was released in October 2012 and was ordered to comply with lifetime GPS monitoring.
13-April-2017: Dane County Jail is a mess
Herbert Wilkins, 54, has cumulatively spent over a year inside the City County Building jail since 2013. While incarcerated there in 2016, he recalls staff commenting on the water the inmates are forced to drink.Wilkins’ lawsuit alleges that black inmates are being disportionately assigned to the oldest of Dane County’s three jail facilities, violating their civil rights. “Most of the staff still doesn’t look like me,” says Wilkins, who is black.
“I did asbestos abatement in Minnesota. I was certified to remove it so I know what I’m talking about. You can see fiber coming out of the concrete at the jail. That’s asbestos,” says Wilkins. “The ventilation system is recirculating all those fibers to every part of the jail.”
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