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North Miami Police say they responded on July 20 to the area of Northeast 14th Avenue and Northeast 127th Street for a report of an armed man threatening suicide.
The "armed man" was a 23-year-old autistic patient who had wandered away from a nearby mental health center. He was sitting on the ground, playing with a toy truck.
47 year old behavioral therapist Charles Kinsey, a black man, was attending to the patient.
Multiple cops, armed with rifles, responded to the scene.
Kinsey was hit in the leg by one bullet. A photo shows Kinsey lying on his back with both hands in the air.
Speaking from his hospital bed Wednesday July 20 to a reporter for WSVN TV, Kinsey said "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'."
The police administered no first aid. "They flipped me over, and I'm faced down in the ground, with cuffs on, waiting on the rescue squad to come", Kinsey said. "I'd say about 20, about 20 minutes it took the rescue squad to get there. And I was like, bleeding."
No gun was found at the scene.
At a Thursday July 21 press conference, the Miami-Dade Police Benevolent Association said the officer was a member of the SWAT team. The head of the PBA told reporters the officer was too far away to hear what Kinsey was saying before he fired.
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A Florida police officer shot and wounded an autistic man's black caretaker, authorities said, in an incident purportedly captured on cellphone video that shows the caretaker lying down with his arms raised before being shot.
Source: LA Times
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Leebert on Friday July 22 2016, @01:15PM
It's funny to me that the police officers were allegedly too far away to hear what Kinsey was saying, yet they presumably expected the two of them to hear whatever verbal orders the police were giving them.
(Score: -1, Troll) by GungnirSniper on Friday July 22 2016, @04:48PM
If you can't summarize your comments please relocate yourself to an inferior place. [reddit.com]
And I'd suggest the police-cowards speaking out against Constitutional rights ought to find themselves new careers. The attitude among police is a major problem and leads to an us-against-everyone attitude that would be worthy of redcoats.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday July 22 2016, @05:04PM
Wut? Did you reply to the right comment?
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(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Friday July 22 2016, @09:29PM
See the GP's subject, yes. "Too far away?" is more far helpful and on topic compared to "Subjects are an anachronism". Subjects are no more an anachronism than story titles.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday July 22 2016, @09:54PM
I missed it, because I did not read the OP's subject line at all.
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(Score: 2) by forkazoo on Friday July 22 2016, @10:31PM
It appears to be a reference to the subject line which reads that subjects are an anachronism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @05:26PM
Was this intended as a reply to a different post? The post you replied to only has one sentence, how much summary does that need?