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Photos: Remembering the Tony Robinson shooting protests in Madison

From the Special Report: Tony Robinson police shooting anniversary series
  • STATE JOURNAL STAFF
  • Mar 6, 2025
  • Mar 6, 2025 Updated Oct 16, 2025
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On March 6, 2015, Madison police officer Matt Kenny, who is white, shot and killed 19-year-old Tony Robinson, a black man, after an altercation at a home on Williamson Street. Robinson's death sparked weeks of demonstrations. Kenny was cleared of any wrongdoing by Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne in May 2015, reigniting protests in the city. Robinson's name was invoked again recently in another round of protests by local activists condemning the death of a black Minneapolis man, George Floyd, at the hands of white police officers.

Tony Robinson police shooting death

Tony Robinson, 19, was fatally shot on March 6, 2015.

Tony Robinson police shooting death

Tony Robinson, 19, was fatally shot on March 6, 2015.

Tony Robinson police shooting death

Madison police still at the scene March 7, 2015, the day after a police officer shot Tony Robinson to death at a home on Williamson Street.

STEVE APPS -- State Journal
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Demonstrators gather outside the Madison Public Safety Building in Madison March 7, 2015, to protest the police-related shooting death of 19-year-old Tony Robinson.

JOHN HART -- State Journal
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Kyrisha Isom, 24, of Madison weeps during a rally along Williamson Street on March 7, 2015, to protest a police shooting that claimed the life of 19-year-old Tony Robinson. Isom says she had been friends with Robinson for about 12 years. At her right is Derrick McCann, also of Madison.

JOHN HART -- State Journal
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Protesters gather outside a home on Williamson Street in Madison on March 7, 2015, to protest an overnight police-related shooting death that claimed the life of 19-year-old Tony Robinson.

JOHN HART -- State Journal
Tony Robinson police shooting death

People gather March 7, 2015, outside a home on Williamson Street in Madison, where Tony Robinson was shot and killed.

JOHN HART -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Kaleem Caire, founder of One City Early Learning Center, delivers impassioned remarks during gathering of church and community leaders and residents at Fountain of Life Covenant Church in Madison on March 7, 2015, in the wake of Tony Robinson's death. “I don’t want to have unity, I want action,” Caire said.

JOHN HART -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Protesters walk down East Washington Avenue during a march in memory of Tony Robinson on March 9, 2015.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Protesters walk down South Ingersoll Street during a march in memory of Tony Robinson on March 9, 2015.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Destiny Marshall of Atlanta, center, is comforted by friends during a protest march in memory of Tony Robinson on March 9, 2015.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Protesters walk down East Washington Avenue during a march in memory Tony Robinson on March 9, 2015. 

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Protesters approach the State Capitol during a march in memory of Tony Robinson on March 9, 2015.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
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Protesters chant while gathering in memory of Tony Robinson at the State Capitol rotunda on March 9, 2015.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Protesters gather in memory of Tony Robinson at the State Capitol rotunda in Madison on March 9, 2015. Robinson was shot and killed by Madison police.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

An estimated 1,500 people, many of them area high school students, attend a March 9, 2015, demonstration at the state Capitol organized by the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition to protest the fatal police shooting of 19-year-old Tony Robinson.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

A protest in the Capitol on March 9, 2015, to condemn the police shooting death of Tony Robinson.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

From left, Tony Robinson Sr. and Andrea Irwin, parents of Tony Robinson, appear March 9, 2015, at a press conference outside the home where their 19-year-old son was killed by a Madison police officer several days earlier. 

JOHN HART -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

A woman cleans the porch March 10, 2015, at the Williamson Street home where a white police officer shot and killed Tony Robinson, who was black.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Kathy Sliter straightens a sign March 10, 2015, at the memorial that has formed on Williamson Street near the apartment where 19-year-old Tony Robinson was killed by a Madison police officer Friday night.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Madison East’s Davion Washington wears a “Black Lives Matter” T-shirt along with the rest of the Purgolders boys basketball team as they warm up before a WIAA Division 1 boys basketball regional final against Middleton at home on March 10, 2015.

AMBER ARNOLD -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Protesters prepare to march from Worthington Park during a protest of the police killing of Tony Robinson on March 11, 2015. 

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Protesters demonstrate March 11, 2015, on East Washington Avenue in Madison five days after the fatal police shooting of Tony Robinson.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

With streets shut down, Madison police officers facilitate a protest march March 11, 2015, against the police killing of Tony Robinson. Some say racist attitudes were behind the shooting, which they call murder. Since the shooting, Madison Police Chief Mike Koval has said officers showed “incredible poise and professionalism at a time when emotions were running understandably high.”

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Madison police Chief Mike Koval, left, talks with UW-Madison student Joshua Harrison of Dayton, Ohio, during a March 11, 2015, protest against the fatal shooting of Tony Robinson by a Madison officer.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Christen Justice, center, and other protesters march west on Commercial Avenue during a protest against the police killing of Tony Robinson in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, March 11, 2015. M.P. KING -- State Journal

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

The family of Dontre Hamilton, killed by police in Milwaukee, speaks during a protest against the police killing of Tony Robinson in front of the Governor's Mansion on March 11, 2015.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Mourners gather beside an open casket during a funeral service Saturday for 19-year-old Tony Robinson at Madison East High School’s Field House on March 14, 2015. Robinson, who was fatally shot by a Madison police officer on March 6, was remembered as a young man with big dreams.

AMBER ARNOLD -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Tony Robinson Sr., left, and Andrea Irwin make their entrance into the funeral service for their 19-year-old son, Tony Robinson, at Madison East High School on March 14, 2015. Robinson was fatally shot by a Madison police officer on March 6.

AMBER ARNOLD -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

About 1,000 people attend a funeral service for 19-year-old Tony Robinson at Madison East High School’s Field House, with an overflow of about 200 watching the service on video from the school’s gym.

AMBER ARNOLD -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Jivonte Davis, left, comforts Jordan King after King spoke to a crowd about his friend Tony Robinson during Robinson’s funeral service March 14, 2015.

AMBER ARNOLD -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Tyrone Henry, left, and Sharon Irwin raise their hands as the crowd joins in during a funeral service for their grandson, 19-year-old Tony Robinson, at Madison East High School on March 14, 2015.

AMBER ARNOLD -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Protesters dance and play music from cars April 14, 2015, as they block East Washington Avenue near Madison East High School and the intersection with Fourth Street during a sit-in protest against the March 6 fatal police shooting of unarmed 19-year-old Tony Robinson.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Protesters occupy the intersection of East Washington Avenue and Fourth Street on April 14, 2015, while protesting the March police killing of Tony Robinson near Madison East High School.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Protesters set up blankets in the intersection of East Washington Avenue and Fourth Street during a sit-in protest April 14, 2015, of the March police killing of Tony Robinson.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

A young man is put in handcuffs Tuesday as police disperse a sit-in protest April 14, 2015, which lasted for eight hours before police declared it an unlawful assembly and began moving people toward the sidewalk.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

A woman is held back by a police officer as she reacts to a young man being put in handcuffs as police disperse a sit-in protest April 14, 2015.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Andrea Irwin, second from right, Tony Robinson's mother, and family members raise their hands in honor of Tony Robinson at the 2015 Youth & Unity Summit at Memorial High School April 26, 2015.

ANDY MANIS,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said during a press conference May 12, 2015, that police officer Matt Kenny, who is white, would face no charges in the shooting death of Tony Robinson, a black man.

JOHN HART -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

The Rev. Chris Long, an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, right, leads a song with other clergy and community leaders while gathered Mary 12, 2015, along Williamson Street and to listen to the press conference where it was announced that the Madison police officer who shot and killed Tony Robinson would not face charges.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Supporters of Tony Robinson's family participate in a march along East Wilson Street in Madison on May 12, 2015. 

JOHN HART -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

From left, family attorney Jon Loevy, Tony Robinson's uncle Turin Carter and his grandmother, Sharon Irwin, speak during a press conference at the Social Justice Center in Madison on May 12, 2015.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Boyfriend Jeff Jackson comforts Andrea Irwin, the mother of Tony Robinson, while escorting her during a protest march in Madison on May 12, 2015.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

A protester who refused to be identified raises his fist while chanting during a protest march stopped at John Nolen Drive and Williamson Street on May 12, 2015.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Brandi Grayson of Madison's Young, Black and Gifted Coalition leads demonstrators in a chant during a rally for Tony Robinson Jr. on May 13, 2015.

JOHN HART -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Madison Memorial High School student Naomi Makesa, 17, helps hold a banner during a rally for Tony Robinson on May 13, 2015.

JOHN HART -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Demonstrators remembering Tony Robinson make their way up John Nolen Drive in Madison on May 13, 2015.

JOHN HART -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Demonstrators in a rally for Tony Robinson assemble outside the Dane County Courthouse in Madison on May 13, 2015.

JOHN HART -- State Journal,
Tony Robinson police shooting death

Protesters in the middle of Doty Street are placed in handcuffs during a protest near the Dane County Jail in on May 13, 2015.

M.P. KING -- State Journal,
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Tony Robinson, 19, was fatally shot on March 6, 2015.

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Special Report: Tony Robinson police shooting anniversary

  • Updated May 21, 2021
    Tony Robinson shooting changed the way some see police
  • Updated May 21, 2021
    For Tony Robinson's mother, a year of grieving
  • Updated May 21, 2021
    Police agencies took hard look at practices in wake of Tony Robinson shooting
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