Thread: Unarmed Black Man Lying In The Street With Hands Up Gets Shot By Police In North Miami

Yet another senseless shooting. Our nation is in deep trouble and in need of divine intervention.

New video out of North Miami shows an unarmed black man moments before and after he was shot by police while lying in the street with his hands up.

Behavioral therapist Charles Kinsey, 47, is recovering in an area hospital after being shot in the leg three times during the incident, which took place on Monday.

According to local Fox station WSVN, police were called to the scene by someone who said there was a man in the street with a gun threatening suicide. However, when officers arrived, Kinsey was trying to help a 23-year-old autistic patient who had run out of a group home and into the street with a toy truck in his hands.

On the video, Kinsey could be heard explaining to police that the autistic man was holding a toy truck and that neither of them was armed.

"All he has is a toy truck in his hand, a toy truck," Kinsey explained from a supine position in the road. "I'm a behavior therapist at a group home."

The autistic patient, who was not named, yelled at Kinsey to shut up as he sat in the road playing with the truck.

The footage did not show the moment Kinsey was shot and it was not clear what happened during that time.

"When he shot me, it was so surprising. It was like a mosquito bite," Kinsey told WSVN from his hospital bed. "And when he hit me, I'm like, I still got my hands in the air. I said, 'You know, I just got shot.' And I'm saying to them, 'Sir, why did you shoot me?' And his words to me, he said, 'I don't know.'"

After the shooting, Kinsey was handcuffed and left in the road until an ambulance arrived, his attorney, Hilton Napoleon, told NBC Miami.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...32ad3?section=

- This really hits close to home, because my Hubby works with autistic kids and teens in a therapeutic group home, and he'd do whatever it took to protect them.

Unfortunately, I can see him in a similar situation.

It doesn't make the man any less shot, but it sounds like it was an accident. I'm just glad he wasn't killed.

Originally Posted by Susan

...but it sounds like it was an accident.

Do you really think that matters to the ones that would protest this?

Originally Posted by fuego

Do you really think that matters to the ones that would protest this?

No it won't..in fact it would..never mind. But I will say this, when I watched this this morning it was noted the video is of before and after the shot. And the police were telling someone to get on their stomach...and the police were called and told a person threatening suicide was armed...

I wondered if the person taking the video was the one who called the police? And wondered if the person knew the two men were not armed...knowing they would show up on high alert.

Originally Posted by Susan

It doesn't make the man any less shot, but it sounds like it was an accident. I'm just glad he wasn't killed.

I agree it was an accident, but accidents are more likely to happen when there's an expectation (on either side) of hostility from the other. Right now, in our country, there is justified mistrust on both sides.

I definitely didn't post this story to condemn the police; it was more of a lamentation on the general state of affairs in the USA at this time.

I think it was a just a bad shot, he was probably aiming for the mentally handicapped guy, the fellow that was armed with a toy truck.

Originally Posted by njtom

I agree it was an accident, but accidents are more likely to happen when there's an expectation (on either side) of hostility from the other. Right now, in our country, there is justified mistrust on both sides.

I definitely didn't post this story to condemn the police; it was more of a lamentation on the general state of affairs in the USA at this time.

I think you're right. I believe these things happen because of a lack of relationship between the police and the community. Both sides of this need to do some serious work.

Why handcuff the guy if it was an accident?

and... they are claiming that it was a bad shot, that the shooter meant to shoot the mental patient armed with a toy truck.

This wasn't a mistake in the sense that the officer shot the wrong guy or he thought that Kinsey was the bad guy," he said in a press conference Thursday.

"The movement of the white individual made it look like he was going to discharge a fire arm into Mr. Kinsey and the officer discharged trying to strike and stop the white man and unfortunately, he missed the white male and shot Mr. Kinsey by accident."

and

along with a second video taken after the gunshots and showing Kinsey and the man with autism being handcuffed,

Only cops get away with these ludicrous explanations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...istic-patient/

I understand the anger, I don't condone BLM or violence towards anyone but this stuff is way beyond the pale.


Too many steroids. Every cop I see down here exhibits roid ranger characteristics.

We meant to shoot the white guy!