“It was a mistake in the sense that he thought Mr. Kinsey was a victim and was about to lose his life”.
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The cell phone video doesn’t show the actual shooting, but it appears to show Kinsey lying down, arms in the air, telling the officers there is no need for lethal force.
Kinsey, 47, who has worked at MacTown Panther Group Homes for a little over a year, wasn’t badly injured and is expected to be home by Thursday.
Caretaker Charles Kinsey said he was lying down with his hands up – attempting to calm down his autistic patient – when a member of the North Miami police shot him Tuesday.
“He has a toy truck”, Kinsey, a black man, tells the officers. “Wow, was I wrong”, he said.
Now Kinsey is hospitalized with a gunshot wound. Miami police leaders have said they don’t know whether the officer was aiming for Kinsey or Rinaldo when Kinsey was shot.
“This is not a case of police abuse”, Rivera said.
North Miami Assistant Police Chief Neal Cuevas told The Miami Herald that officers responded to a 911 call on Monday following reports of a man threatening to shoot himself. Would the police officer on the scene have made some kind of weird assumption and drawn their weapons? We had witness statements that there was a gun. However, no gun was recovered from the incident.
“Lay down on your stomach”, Mr Kinsey says to his patient in the video, which was shot from a distance.
Napoleon did not provide information about who filmed it but he did say there was a two-minute gap in which the person who shot the video had switched off, thinking nothing more noteworthy would happen.
The man beside him rocks back and forth.
“They realize this was something inappropriate regarding the shooting”, Napoleon told the Miami Herald.
America has been rocked by protests over police killings since the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 19-year-old, in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014. The offier’s name hasn’t been released.
The agency will not comment on the shooting, spokeswoman Molly Best said. “At some point during the on-scene negotiation, one of the responding officers discharged his weapon”.
“We found out bits and pieces and we’re still finding things out”, said friend Lyle Muhammad.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has been asked to conduct an independent investigation of the incident.
He is also outraged that Kinsey was handcuffed and was left on the road until paramedics arrived about 20 minutes later, he said. As long as I’ve got my hands up, they’re not going to shoot me – that’s what I’m thinking.
By Wednesday, North Miami police hadn’t offered much of an explanation.
An officer has been placed under administrative leave.
“I realise there are many questions about what happened on Monday night“. You have questions. The community has questions. “And, I assure you there is more to this story”.
Since black men fatally shot by police are reported on so heavily, other users just expressed their relief that Kinsey made it out of the incident with his life.
Gabriel Pendas, 33, a lone protester outside the police station on Thursday held a sign that read, “STOP shooting black people”.
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A USA congresswoman whose district includes North Miami told reporters she was shocked by the video that shows the scene before the shooting.
