Police killings
2013-2020

Chad Robertson

Male, Black

Date of the incident: 2/8/2017

Chicago, Cook, IL
S Canal St & Jackson Blvd

Chad Robertson, 25, and his travel companions were waiting out an hour-long layover in Chicago's Union Station when Amtrak Officer LaRoyce Tankson and another officer approached them. Reportedly, the trio walked outside to find a restaurant, they were followed by the transit police who accused them of smoking marijuana, and Robertson fled. Tankson shot Robertson in the back as he ran. Robertson died days later.