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By Brendan O'Brien MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) - About 1,000 people, some banging plastic pails or blowing whistles, gathered on Wednesday afternoon near the Wisconsin corrections department in Madison to protest the fatal police shooting last week of an unarmed biracial young man. The shooting of Tony Robinson, 19, in Wisconsin's capital by a veteran white Madison police officer on Friday was the latest in a string of officer-involved deaths around the country that have heightened concerns about racial bias in U.S. law enforcement. Activists are questioning the use of force against Anthony Hill, a 27-year-old black man, who was naked and unarmed when he was shot and killed by a white police officer in an Atlanta suburb on Monday. The Wisconsin protesters, who planned to march from a park to the corrections department, were of different races and mostly in their teens or early 20s.
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