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posted by n1 on Friday July 22 2016, @11:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-shot-the-wrong-unarmed-man dept.

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.

Heavy.com Heavy.com with video

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956:

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


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Friday July 22 2016, @01:18PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Friday July 22 2016, @01:18PM (#378478) Journal

    Man, some people just don't get sarcasm.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by ilPapa on Friday July 22 2016, @02:31PM

    by ilPapa (2366) on Friday July 22 2016, @02:31PM (#378525) Journal

    Man, some people just don't get sarcasm.

    Some sarcasm can't be easily distinguished from what we've been hearing at the Republican convention for the past week.

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    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @02:33PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @02:33PM (#378527)

      Poe's law strikes again.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @07:54PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @07:54PM (#378745)

        Are you trying to be contrary? I say "Poe's law"? Never more!

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 22 2016, @02:35PM

      If you can't distinguish between protectionism and racism, you really, really need to not be voting.

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      • (Score: 2) by aclarke on Friday July 22 2016, @02:52PM

        by aclarke (2049) on Friday July 22 2016, @02:52PM (#378545) Homepage

        My comment isn't really directed at you personally as I don't know you, but basically nobody says "yeah I'm racist". It's pretty much always a variation of "I'm not racist, but". So in this case it could be "I'm not racist; I'm protectionist". Not all protectionists are racist, nor vice versa, but there are a lot of core beliefs that are common across both groups.

        I also think most of us have racist beliefs in some way, and we could all do with improvement. We're not just racist/non racist, and for most of us, the way we contribute to a small problem is the sum of all our little beliefs and how they affect our behaviour in all the small ways. So our behaviours and attitudes need constant honest re-examination. If a situation like the one in this story helps all of us do that, at least some good can come of it.

        • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 22 2016, @04:46PM

          There are a lot of core beliefs across the United Russia party and the Democratic party as well. That doesn't mean Democrats need to constantly be called commies. Or even examined for commie-like traits.

          The majority of the current batch of Republicans are straight up, pre-WWII protectionists. They don't want anyone coming in; black, brown, yellow, white, green, or purple. Which granted is bloody stupid but it is not remotely racist.

          Now what I think we should be doing is letting anyone in who can provide proof of employment or business ownership, denying them social services entirely, and actually deporting them if they ever spend more than three months unemployed. We can always use more hard workers but we really, REALLY do not need any more welfare/foodstamp/unemployment cases, TYVM. If they want to sponge off the government, they need to earn the right to do so first by becoming citizens.

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          • (Score: 2) by ilPapa on Saturday July 23 2016, @03:40AM

            by ilPapa (2366) on Saturday July 23 2016, @03:40AM (#378904) Journal

            The majority of the current batch of Republicans are straight up, pre-WWII protectionists. They don't want anyone coming in; black, brown, yellow, white, green, or purple.

            That's not true. How often do you hear any Republican complaining about the number of Serbians or Lithuanians coming into the country? What was the last time you heard them complaining about Russian immigration or Polish immigration?

            You had an opportunity to hear it from them first-hand for the past week. They're worried about black and brown and nothing else. Remember Steve King's speech about the "sub-groups"? It was as pure an expression of white nationalism as you will hear in any public setting.

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            • (Score: 2, Informative) by Spamalope on Saturday July 23 2016, @03:59PM

              by Spamalope (5233) on Saturday July 23 2016, @03:59PM (#379071) Homepage

              There is no giant influx of Serbian illegal aliens that I've missed, or a huge population of Lithuanians on welfare. You're being ridiculous. This is isolationism reminiscent of the 1930s, seemingly a reaction to immigration and failed foreign nation building. (how is that Arab spring working out? The Russians just bombed Americans in Syria? How the hell is that headline possible?)

              A large sustained influx of illegal aliens from a single culture with a very low rate of assimilation creates a separate culture that breaks the melting pot unity of the US. As terribly flawed as US culture/politics is, trading for Central America's would be worse. Those immigrants are fleeing the results of it. We'd have societal conflict too, and that has kept nations in permanent strife (unless there is a successful genocide). If you can't think of several current examples you haven't been following even the most obvious world events.
               
              Immigration can't happen faster than we can turn the immigrants into Americans, or civil conflict and a fracturing of society into sub-cultures is directly caused. Policy makers know that, and appear to be directly aiming to cause it.

              When huge numbers of Europeans came to the US, there was open oppression of them. The treatment of the Irish is a good example. This massacre of Irish railway workers, for example.
                http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/new-evidence-suggests-57-irish-railroad-workers-were-murdered-26672675.html [independent.ie]

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by snick on Friday July 22 2016, @03:03PM

        by snick (1408) on Friday July 22 2016, @03:03PM (#378548)

        Evidently you think that the Republican [thinkprogress.org] Leadership [time.com] shouldn't vote

        • (Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 22 2016, @04:48PM

          I wish that the Republican leadership wouldn't vote. Yes. I also wish they wouldn't run for office. Ditto the Democratic leadership.

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          • (Score: 3, Funny) by DECbot on Friday July 22 2016, @06:05PM

            by DECbot (832) on Friday July 22 2016, @06:05PM (#378689) Journal

            But that will only leave sane, rational people to run the government... and we have no experience on how that will turn out! Vote for the known problem!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @03:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 22 2016, @03:16PM (#378558)

    I got it.
    And I completely agreed with it.
    But you don't do your point any favors by whining about it.
    Make your joke and let it stand on its own. There will always be some people who are either not bright enough, or are too willfully ignorant to get the point. Complaining about them just waters down your point and makes it about you.

    • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Friday July 22 2016, @06:39PM

      by LoRdTAW (3755) on Friday July 22 2016, @06:39PM (#378711) Journal

      The idea was to try and start some discussion about it. And it worked.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by inertnet on Friday July 22 2016, @06:27PM

    by inertnet (4071) on Friday July 22 2016, @06:27PM (#378702) Journal

    Even more sarcasm: "The cop was suspended because he failed to kill the suspect."