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By Mary Reardon MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters gathered in Wisconsin's capital on Wednesday, calling for a say in hiring and firing of Madison police a day after a prosecutor said an officer's fatal shooting of an unarmed biracial teenager was justified. Relatives of Tony Robinson Jr., 19, had expressed disappointment over Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne's decision that Madison officer Matt Kenny, who is white, used justified lethal force in the March 6 shooting. "We are asking not to go to schools, not to go to work, shut down business as usual, come out here and say that we will demand justice for Tony," said Brandi Grayson, co-founder of the Young Gifted and Black Coalition, which organized the protest. Grayson said the group wants community control over hiring and firing of officers and is petitioning the United Nations to investigate racial disparities in Dane County and Wisconsin.
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