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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 says he asked the cops not to shoot.
"Sir, there is no need for firearms. I'm unarmed. He's an autistic guy. He got a toy truck in his hand."
One of the cops then fired 3 times.
The cop's claim is that he was shooting at the patient.

Kinsey was hit in the leg by one bullet.
A photo [wordpress.com] 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.

The police department is, of course, covering up the name of the cop who goes around shooting people for no reason and he has been given a paid vacation.

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