LF: Police shoot unarmed black therapist lying flat on his back with his arms in the air while he tried to calm his autistic patient and BEGGED cops not to open fire

Title: Police shoot unarmed black therapist lying flat on his back with his arms in the air while he tried to calm his autistic patient and BEGGED cops not to open fire
Source: Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... ct-believed-gun-toy-truck.html
Published: Jul 21, 2016
Author: Pedro Oliveira Jr.
Post Date: 2016-07-21 08:55:45 by cranky
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Views: 5041
Comments: 31

An unarmed Florida therapist was shot by police while trying to calm down his autistic patient, authorities said.

Police in North Miami were responding to a report of a man with what appeared to be a gun when they came across Charles Kinsey and his patient, who had run away from a group home.

'All he has is a toy truck — a toy truck,' Kinsey pleads with cops, lying flat on the ground with arms raised, as seen in cell phone footage of the incident. 'I am a behavior therapist at a group home.'

Kinsey tries to get his patient to comply, using soothing words so he remains calm.

'Rinaldo, please be still, Rinaldo,' he is heard saying in video released by WSVN. 'Sit down, Rinaldo. Lay on your stomach.'

Therapist Charles Kinsey, 46, (left) was shot in North Miami while he was on the ground with his hands up. Throughout the ordeal, he tries to soothe his autistic patient (right), who was playing with a toy truck

Kinsey (right) recounts to a local TV station how cops shot him while on the ground and then cuffed him (left)

The man, 23, sits next to him and yells 'shut up' while playing with his toy truck.

An officer then fires three times, striking Kinsey in the leg, authorities said.

Kinsey is black. Police haven't released the name or race of the officer who shot him.

Kinsey, 47, says the 911 caller must have mistaken a toy that the autistic man had for a gun.

'I'm like this right here, and when he shot me, it was so surprising,' Kinsey told WSVN.

'I thought it was a mosquito bite, and when it hit me I had my hands in the air, and I'm thinking I just got shot!

'And I'm saying, 'Sir, why did you shoot me?' and his words to me were, 'I don't know.''

Kinsey was taken to a local hospital with bullet wounds to his legs. He is expected to go home later this week

Because you're an idiot. Who helps their autistic patient sitting in the middle of a street by lying on their back with their arms in the air?

So why are idiots like yourself condoning police misconduct again... i mean everything was explained in the story. The adult was a retard and his handler was trying to get the mentaly disabled man home when cops rolled up to play kill a nigger, their favorite game. What kind of a pussy wisp testicle.tumor would support such thugery? Can YOU tell me?

John Rivera, who leads the Dade County Police Benevolent Association, explained that the police officer shot Kinsey by accident. He was actually aiming for “the white male”—Kinsey’s young autistic patient, whom the cops mistook for a suicidal man with a gun.

(In the video taken before the shooting, Kinsey calls him “Rinaldo” while trying to get him to lay on the ground so he wouldn’t be shot by the police.)

So what we have here is a cop, who is a terrible shot, who decided that a man holding a toy truck was a threat.

They were sent to the scene as a result of 911 call reporting a man with a gun. What do they see? Two people in the middle of the street -- one laying down with his hands up pleading with another man who is holding what appears to be the gun they were told about.

Well, at least it could explain why the badged bureaucrat claimed he had no idea why he shot the therapist.