Madison Police Shooting Not Just About Race Family Says
The uncle of the 19-year-old who was fatally shot by a police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, over the weekend said that his nephew "just wanted to be loved."
Tony Robinson Jr., who was known to his family as Tyrell, was fatally shot by a police officer on Friday and the incident is now the subject of a state Department of Justice investigation.
Robinson's mother is white and his father is African American, and at a news conference this afternoon, Robinson's uncle, Turin Carter, spoke out on behalf of the family about how this is a universal issue that should be understood by people of all races.
"We don’t want to just stop at black lives matter. ... Tyrell is a mixture of everything. You can’t look at him and say he's black," Carter said.
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