Update, March 8, 2015: According to a report from the Associated Press, the cop who killed Tony Robinson, 19, is Matt Kenny, who is white. . . .
“Kenny, who had more than 12 years with the Madison department, also shot and killed a suspect in 2007, but was cleared of wrongdoing because it was a ‘suicide by cop-type’ situation,” said the AP. “In that shooting, Kenny responded to a 911 call of a man with a gun and shot him twice after police said he pointed the gun at officers. It turned out to be a pellet gun.”
Predictably, news media has now also detailed a previous arrest and conviction of Robinson for home invasion, completely unrelated to his killing by Kenny. Police had said he was running in and out of traffic, and allegedly he had been involved in an assault and battery. However, a friend said he frequently runs across the street between his apartment and that of his room-mate’s mother.
Robinson was still alive when he arrived at the hospital where police took him, but no one from his family, including his mother Andrea Irwin, was allowed to see him. Irwin said her son was not a violent person, and she could not understand how he could die under such violent circumstances.
MADISON, WI — After an unnamed Madison Police Department officer shot teenager Anthony “Tony” Terrell Robinson in an apartment on the 1100 block of Williamson Street Friday evening, a crowd of nearly 150 gathered at the scene to protest what they said was another example of racial injustice. Robinson was a graduate of Sun Prairie High School.
Family spokesman Michael Johnson said on Facebook that Robinson was a “loving and caring young man” who was about to attend Milwaukee Area Technical College to pursue a business degree.
Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said a police officer shot and killed a 19-year-old black man Friday evening, according to footage from a press conference published by Channel 3000. The family of the victim identified him as Anthony Robinson.
Koval said MPD received a report that Robinson was responsible for a recently committed battery. The first responding officer arrived at the apartment the man had entered and heard a “disturbance” coming from inside. The officer then forced his way into the building, where Robinson allegedly assaulted him.
“In the context of mutual combat in that sense, the officer did draw his revolver and subsequently shot the subject,” Koval said.
At the time of the press conference, police did not know if Robinson had a weapon, although an initial investigation ruled out the presence of a gun.
Koval said the officer immediately aided Robinson with CPR, along with help from backup officers. He was taken to a hospital, where he died of the gunshot wounds.
The responding officer was knocked down by a blow to the head, but Koval said at the press conference, the officer would be treated and ultimately released.
State law mandates that an independent investigation be conducted. MPD froze the scene until the state Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation arrived.
Officers at the scene said DOJ investigators had arrived before 11:30 p.m.
“This is completely their oversight,” Koval said. “We will only supplement their needs as they request it.”
He said MPD will not have an instrumental role in the investigation.
“In light of so [many] things that have happened not just across this country, but in our own community, it’s understandable that the reaction at the scene amidst some of our citizens is extremely volatile, emotional and upsetting,” Koval said.
Demonstrators arrived on Williamson Street shortly after the incident, where they remained for several hours, chanting, singing and praying for Robinson’s family.
Shortly before midnight, Robinson’s grandmother, Sharon Irwin, and aunt, Lorien Carter, addressed the crowd.
He [Robinson] wouldn’t hurt a fly,” Irwin said. “He was unarmed. Why would you shoot him five times? What happened to your taser gun?”
Family members said they were not allowed to see Robinson after he was pronounced dead.
‘WE WERE TOLD HE WAS EVIDENCE,’ NOT ALLOWED TO SEE ROBINSON
“We were told he was evidence,” Carter said. “He wasn’t referred to as ‘his son’ or ‘your son,’ just ‘evidence.'”
Protest organizers relocated the crowd to the City/County Building, where they said police were holding two demonstrators who had been detained from the scene earlier in the evening.
Police locked the doors to the building after half the group had already entered. They staged a sit-in along the halls of the building while the others chanted outside and knocked on the doors to the building.
The two protesters were released before 1:30 a.m., and the combined group of roughly 150 dissipated.
Irwin said she believed her grandson’s death was part of a larger national issue and similar to cases in Ferguson, Mo. and Miami Gardens, Fla.
“This can’t go on anymore,” Irwin said. “It’s going on across the United States and it’s ridiculous. You don’t have a license to kill. You have a license to protect, and that’s not what I’m seeing.”
Above all, family members asked for nonviolent demonstrations, like the one Friday night, to continue.
“Protest peacefully, please,” Carter asked. “Stand up, but stand up peacefully.”
VOD editor: This morning again, we wake up to hear of another Black youth whose life has been ended by a killer kop, after two men of color in LA were shot down like dogs by the LAPD March 1 and March 5. This is nothing but an ongoing massacre across the U.S. now, by the country’s own home-grown terrorists, its police forces.
Peaceful protests do not matter, as killer cops are set free, from Joseph Weekley in Detroit, who deliberately shot Aiyana Jones, 7, in the head with an MP5 submachine gun on May 16 2010, to Darrell Wilson from Ferguson, MO, who deliberately killed 18-year-old Michael Brown Aug. 9, 2014.
The mainstream media lies, criminalizing the victims without fail, aiding and abetting the killers. It lied all through the years since Aiyana’s murder, claiming the shooting, part of a horrific SWAT-style raid on her home, was an “accident.” VOD was the only newspaper to report that the Medical Examiner testified that a contact gunshot wound would not leave stippling, as was the case with Aiyana, and that Weekley did not even have the safety on his gun engaged according to an inside source.
“He came to kill!” Aiyana’s grandmother Mertilla Jones cried out at the time. Yes, Weekley did, and yes, cops all over the U.S. are coming to kill members of Black, Latino and poor communities deliberately every single day.
The U.S. Department of Justice issued a report this week condemning the racist practices of the Ferguson Police Department, but never brought charges against Wilson. Outgoing U.S Atty. General Eric Holder said the USDOJ may have to go so far as to dismantle the department.
YES! That must be done across the country and if the federal government does not do it, the people must! Killer cop forces must be driven out of our communities, and those responsible for these murders jailed for life. The slaughter of our youth, people of color and poor people across the U.S. will never end until these ISIS-style occupation forces leave!
Frederick Douglass:
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
In the light of these ideas, Negroes will be hunted at the North and held and flogged at the South so long as they submit to those devilish outrages and make no resistance, either moral or physical. Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get. If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives and the lives of others.
– See Frederick Douglass’ entire speech at:
We have no alternative but to kill those who are killing us. Create a chapter for ALL in your community. Join. Simple process! If you want to be in your in but I warn you, this no place for the weak but strong. Arm yourself! Let go to war and meet you at pass! AADL
NAAWP is calling for the RESIGINATION of all WHITE COPS in MADISON, …
… FERGERSON, ST. LOUIS, CLEVELAND, ATLANTA, BROOKLYN, LOS ANGELES, NEW ORLEANS, BATON ROUGE, SHREVEPORT, MONROE, GRETNA, BIRMINGHAM, OAKLAND, BOSTON, DENVER, DETROIT, FLINT, PHILLY, CHICAGO, PITTSBURG, MONTGOMERY, HUNTSVILLE, JACKSON, JACKSONVILLE, MEMPHIS, CHARLESTON, CHARLOTTE, LOUISBURG, ATLANTIC CITY, JERSEY CITY, BALTIMORE and WASHINGTON D.C.!
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NAAWP investigates BLACK TEEN TONY ROBERTSON’s DEATH in MADISON, WISCOSIN
TONY’s CRIMINAL RECORD:
1) CONVICTED of ARMED ROBBERY in OCTOBER of 2014
2) CHARGED with HOME INVASION/GRAND THEFT in APRIL of 2014
3) TONY’s SCHOOL DISCIPLINE RECORDS have been REQUESTED
WHITE COP SHOOTS BLACK TEEN: http://www.aol.com/article/2015/03/08/protests-follow-fatal-police-shooting-of-unarmed-19-year-old/21150882/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl5%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D624628
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for the ADVANCEMENT of WHITE PEOPLE – 2015