Author, survivor of police shooting Robbie Tolan to speak at Geneva College

BEAVER FALLS — Robbie Tolan was hoping to follow his father into Major League Baseball when he was shot and seriously wounded by a white police officer 10 years ago outside his parents’ home near Houston.Unlike other young, black, unarmed boys and men who have found themselves in similar circumstances, Tolan survived, only to see the officer acquitted of criminal charges. Tolan and his family then fought a long civil case battle that was eventually settled. [...]