of potential protests.

 Our community and our Marquette neighbors witnessed another horrific officer-involved shooting just blocks from our festival grounds, leaving us in deep pain and justified anger,  organizers of the festival wrote.  In acknowledgment of what has happened far too often in our community and our country as a whole, this year's AtwoodFest, themed 'The Heartbeat of the Neighborhood,' is canceled. 

And on Saturday, the popular downtown farmers market that attracts about 20,000 people each week around the Capitol building, shut down nearly four hours earlier than usual in solidarity with protesters.

 We mourn with our community,  market organizers posted on social media.  And we agree - business cannot proceed as usual. 

A handful of protesters showed up at the Capitol as vendors were breaking down their booths at around 10 a.m.

 No one should be thinking this is just another Saturday,  said Reba Bergmann, who sat with Lilly Nimmer holding a sign that said  Justice for Corey. 

 It's not life as normal,  Nimmer said.  We should be more mad. We should stand up for what we believe in. 

Charles Alt, 30, supported the decision to close down early.

 It's important to keep focus on the real tragedy, which is that someone got killed,  said Alt, who was shopping at the market.  Missing some market time, that's sad, but that's not what's important. 

But Rodney Hathaway, who was visiting Madison from Milwaukee, was caught off guard by the market's early closure.

 It's ridiculous,  he said.  This is peoples' livelihoods. It's just unfortunate. We have such a short summer season for these people to sell their wares. 

Investigations into the shooting continue. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents the Ruiz family, said on Friday at a new conference in the Capitol that the officer who fired the shots should face criminal charges.

Madison Police Chief John Patterson, who is white, has tried to calm tensions, even allowing protesters to overtake a news conference that he was leading along with the mayor inside the police department's downtown headquarters on Thursday.

Patterson took questions from angry protesters, one of whom held a sign just feet away from the chief that said  corrupt cops deserve to die too.  After one protester hurled an insult at Patterson, the chief calmly responded,  I appreciate you being here.