The officer’s name and race has not been released. The state Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation is investigating the shooting.
Source/Credit: Haaretz
By The Associated Press | Mar. 8, 2015
Police chief in Madison, Wisconsin, says initial findings at scene suggest the deceased was unarmed.
A 19-year-old black man died Friday night after being shot by a police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, authorities said.
The man was shot after an altercation with the officer and died at a hospital, Police Chief Mike Koval said. He did not know if the man was armed, but said the “initial findings at the scene did not reflect a gun or anything of that nature that would have been used by the subject.”
Authorities have not released the 19-year-old’s name, but family members identified him to local media as Tony Robinson.
The officer’s name and race has not been released. The state Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation is investigating the shooting.
A crowd of people gathered at the scene Friday night and chanted “Black Lives Matter,” the Wisconsin State Journal reported. That slogan emerged during protests that erupted over police killings of unarmed black men last year in Ferguson, Missouri, and the New York City borough of Staten Island.
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