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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: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Friday July 22 2016, @07:45PM
and any loss of time or part (audio or video) constitutes an automatic 'the cop lied' verdict.
if they can't ensure that their equipment is working, they have no business using it. we will soon depend on this a/v recording. its going to happen and no one can stop it. but we have to make sure that 'oops!' stuff does not happen when its most convenient for the cops. like, right before he punches your lights out, a sudden loss of a/v recording, or the video is pointing up in the sky, on purpose.
any bullshit that gets in the way of fact-finding should be an automatic win for the accused/citizen.
if you don't do it that way, it WILL be abused and untrustable.
oh, and the film has to be digitally signed. we all know that. they don't and they will fight us every step of the way. expect it. but lets fight them and get what's right.
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