Hundreds of people have hit the streets of Madison, Wisconsin to protest the death of an unarmed African American teen, who was shot by the police.
According to NBC News, the shooting happened Friday evening when an officer responded to a battery call. 19-year-old Anthony "Tony" Robinson was reportedly walking through traffic and hitting pedestrians when the officer arrived. Reports claim Robinson was shot after arguing with the officer, but the family of the teen says he was shot five times after the officer followed him into his home.
Known to his family and close friends as Terrell, the teen graduated six months early from high school and planned to attend Milwaukee Area Technical College for business.
In a familiar pattern carried out by the many people in Ferguson when Michael Brown was shot by former Officer Darren Wilson, many took to Twitter to document the scene of the crime. Locals along with the family of the teen marched to the police station and other government buildings chanting, "Who can you trust? Not the police!"
Friends and family of Robinson described him as a friendly teen who wouldn't harm a fly. "He was a loving and caring young man according to his grandmother," Michael Johnson, the family's spokesperson stated on Facebook.
During a press conference, Madison police chief Mike Koval stated that Robinson was unarmed.
"The initial finding at the scene did not reflect a gun or anything of that nature that would have been used by the subject," he said.
The officer, who has yet to be identified was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injures. He reportedly performed CPR on the teen before he died. Robinson's family says they haven't been able to see the teen since he was shot.
The state's Department of Justice's Division of Criminal Investigation is currently looking into the shooting.
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