{"id":40375,"date":"2015-03-10T01:22:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T01:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40375"},"modified":"2015-03-10T13:22:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T13:22:53","slug":"madison-police-shooting-not-just-about-race-because-victim-was-biracial-family-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40375","title":{"rendered":"Madison Police Shooting: Not Just About Race Because Victim Was Biracial, Family Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/madison-police-shooting-race-victim-biracial-family\/story?id=29513848\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Madison Police Shooting: Not Just About Race Because Victim Was Biracial, Family Says<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-09<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkeneally\" target=\"_blank\">Meghan Keneally<\/a><\/strong>, Digital Reporter<\/p>\n<p>The uncle of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Tony_Robinson\" target=\"_blank\">19-year-old who was fatally shot by a police officer in Madison, Wisconsin<\/a>, over the weekend said that his nephew &#8220;just wanted to be loved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson&#8217;s mother is white and his father is African American, and at a news conference this afternoon, Robinson&#8217;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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/madison-police-shooting-race-victim-biracial-family\/story?id=29513848\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison Police Shooting: Not Just About Race Because Victim Was Biracial, Family Says ABC News 2015-03-09 Meghan Keneally, Digital Reporter 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 &#8220;just wanted to be loved.&#8221; Tony Robinson Jr., who was known to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,20],"tags":[11471,19560,19575,19563,19576,5661],"class_list":["post-40375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-abc-news","tag-madison","tag-meghan-keneally","tag-tony-robinson","tag-turin-carter","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}