Another unarmed
black man shot but thankfully not killed by police this week in Miami, Florida.
The victim, Charles Kinsey, a therapist, was trying to calm his autistic
patient down on the streets when he was approached by police following reports
of a man threatening to commit suicide (referring to the autistic man) Charles
was shot despite laying on the ground and raising his hands up
North Miami
Assistant Police Chief Neal Cuevas told The Miami Herald that officers
responded to the scene on Monday to find 47-year-old Charles Kinsey, a
therapist who works with people with disabilities, trying to get his
27-year-old patient back to a facility from where he wandered.
According to the
Police chief, police ordered Kinsey and the patient, who was sitting in the
street playing with a toy truck, to lie on the ground. Kinsey lies down and
puts his hands up while trying to get his patient to comply. An officer then
fired three times, striking Kinsey in the leg. No weapon was found on Kinsey.
According to the police they thought the toy truck was a gun.
Kinsey's attorney,
Hilton Napoleon, showed a video to Miami Herald on Wednesday taken moments
before the shooting. The video shows Kinsey lying in the middle of the street
with his hands up, asking the officers not to shoot him, while the autistic man
sits next to him, yelling at him to "shut up."
"Sir, there's
no need for firearms," Kinsey said he told police before he was shot,
according to the station. "It was so surprising. It was like a mosquito
bite."
In hospital as he
recovered from the gunshot wound, Charles said he tried to talk to the officers
in the video but was unable to get through to them.
“When I went to the
ground, I went to the ground with my hands up,” Kinsey said, “and I am laying
there just like this. Telling them again there is no need for firearms. He is autistic.
He has a toy truck in his hand.”
Police ended up
shooting Charles and he just doesn't know why. The case is under
investigation..
Source: lindaikejisblog
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