A video that shows an unarmed African-American man lying in the street with his arms in the air doesn’t tell the whole story of what happened when North Miami police shot the man earlier this week, a union official told reporters. The officer that shot Kinsey was placed on administrative leave, according to department policy.
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Officer Jonathan Aledda has been placed on administrative leave.
Police said they later learned that Kinsey worked at a group home for people with intellectual disabilities and that the other man, who has autism, had left the facility.
Hollant later allegedly told investigators he was not present at the shooting.
But it was hardly a split second considering police were on the scene for 15 minutes before he opened fire, a period of time police said they were negotiating with Kinsey and the 24-year-old autistic man holding the toy truck.
The incident happened Monday when Charles Kinsey, a behavioral therapist, was shot and injured while lying on the ground next to a man with autism. “To me, that’s just outrageous”.
Monday’s shooting was the latest in a violent month of police shootings, but it also highlights the difficulties officers have in identifying people with autism.
“I was more anxious about him than myself”, Kinsey told WSVN. “He did wrong. He shot an innocent, unarmed man-there should be some consequences.One of the excuses he made is he missed”.
For 10 years, she has been educating South Florida officers with the help of her 20-year-old autistic son Robert, whom she said is much like the man in the video in that he can be loud and not follow orders. We have received hundreds of calls and emails both at our police department and at City Hall.
According to anonymous sources who spoke to WPLG, Hollant was the person heard on the police radio immediately prior to the shooting saying that the autistic man had a gun.
The man beside him rocks back and forth.
Kinsey told CNN affiliate WSVN-TV in Miami that after the shooting, he was flipped over and handcuffed. Kinsey lay on the ground, explaining the situation to officers at a distance.
Napoleon said Thursday that Kinsey was physically “doing OK”. Authorities are investigating the shooting.
Mr Clint Bower, president and chief executive of MACtown, where Mr Kinsey works, expressed frustration at how the police responded, but praised Mr Kinsey for his actions.
“Sometimes police officers make mistakes”, Rivera said. “The officers all thought the individual had a firearm”.
Rivera said that the video footage was “being portrayed poorly”.
“This is not a case of a rogue cop. This is not a case of police abuse”, he said.
She said she has trained North Miami officers, but doesn’t know if the ones involved in the shooting have taken her classes.
The shooting of Charles Kinsey will bear significance in the coming weeks.
Kinsey “did everything he was supposed to do, and was more concerned with protecting the individual he was responsible for than his own life”, Bower said.
In August 2015, he criticized Marilyn Smith, a woman who posted a video of Miami police beating a man in handcuffs. “I can assure you that the community will stay informed at all times”.
On Friday, Napoleon said he found the cop’s explanation implausible.
The North Miami Police Department had said it had received a 911 call of a man threatening to commit suicide with a gun pointed at his head. “This is not a case other than an officer who was trying to save the life of Mr. Kinsey and feels awful that his aim missed and struck Mr. Kinsey”.
“I took this job to save lives and help people”. “I did what I had to do in a split-second to accomplish that, and hate to hear others paint me as something I’m not”.
‘Why did you shoot me?’
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Kinsey’s attorney claims that Aledda told his client that he didn’t know why he shot him, but the PBA insists that Aledda had no contact or communication with Kinsey after the shooting.
