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Wisconsin Students Pack Capitol over Police Killing of Tony Robinson

HeadlineMar 10, 2015

In Wisconsin, high school and college students packed the State Capitol Monday in the fourth day of protest over the killing of unarmed black teenager Tony Robinson. Police say Robinson was shot and killed in an apartment after Officer Matt Kenny responded to a report of a man jumping in and out of traffic after assaulting someone. Some 1,500 students filled the Capitol rotunda, hanging a banner that read “Black Lives Matter.”

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