Tony Terrell Robinson was shot dead by Madison police. This is how it happened |
Tony Terrell Robinson was shot dead by Madison police. This is how it happened
The Guardian
2015-03-13
Oliver Laughland, Senior Reporter
Guardian US
 Robinson as a child. ‘There is something so beautiful about a black kid, especially in America, trying to make it against all odds and fucking up so bad, but then actively trying to better his situation.’ Photograph: Robinson family |
Exclusive: Many questions remain about the shooting of the Wisconsin 19-year-old, but accounts from close friends and family paint a picture of a young man turning his life around who needed help that night – and instead wound up another young man of color whose life was tragically cut short
Madison, Wisconsin—Tony Terrell Robinson was born into poverty and spent the last moments of his life bleeding from a gunshot wound, surrounded by no one but local police officers on the porch of his shared apartment…
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