He has been suspended without pay.
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Rivera called the officer who shot Charles Kinsey “decorated” and said he was a member of city’s SWAT team.
Police have not revealed why the officer fired, though a police union representative divulged on Thursday that the officer involved, who is now on administrative leave, aimed for the other man with autism thinking he was armed.
The officer, Rivera said, had been aiming for the patient beside Kinsey, whom he thought posed a danger.
“This is not supposed to be happening in North Miami”. Those records show four years of above average and outstanding work, with one internal affairs investigation in which he was cleared. He called it a “very sensitive matter” and promised a transparent investigation, but refused to identify the officer or answer reporters’ questions.
Additionally, “community notification for sexual predators conducted were not in compliance with the statutory requirements of F.S. 775.21 as they did not include any demographic information, a description of the crime for which the individual was convicted and classified as a sexual predator, nor any indication if the victim of that crime was an adult or a minor”.
Aledda shot Charles Kinsey, a healthcare worker, who was helping a man with autism after he wandered away from the MACtown group home where Kinsey worked. Kinsey, in a yellow shirt and dark shorts, was standing beside him. He yelled. He didn’t obey commands to lie down with his hands up, as the therapist was doing, and he fidgeted with a metal object.
Becerra said she watched cellphone video of the moments before the shooting and believed she probably would have recognized that Kinsey’s client was autistic. Kinsey, a therapist who was trying to calm an autistic…
Sometimes, police really do need to use their guns to save lives. Then he says, “Reynaldo, please be still Reynaldo”. Kinsey has reportedly left the hospital and is in stable condition. “They are shooting because they are scared”, Anderson said.
Kinsey had both of his hands up and could be heard placating the autistic man. Police fired three times-and one of the bullets hit Kinsey in the leg. Mr. Kinsey is recovering.
In the USA, police shootings and fractured race relations continue to dominate the landscape.
Bower said he offered North Miami police training on how to deal with people with disabilities two years ago after police stunned another client with a Taser. As it stands now, individual states have guidelines, but police departments within the states are allowed to tighten those requirements.
The shooting comes amid weeks of an epidemic of violence committed by and against police.
The shooting in Florida earlier this week illustrates the longstanding fear among black men that nearly any encounter with police can go awry with potentially deadly results, even when a person follows every law enforcement command. “He got a toy truck in his hand”, Kinsey said.
“That’s a reckless act and I don’t understand any justification for it”, Napoleon said. “He is a little shaken over the fact that-his question to me was ‘Uncle Danny what else could I have done to keep from getting shot?’ And I said ‘Charles you couldn’t have done nothing else'”.
Napoleon said that Kinsey was physically “doing OK”.
North Miami officials vowed on Friday the investigation of the latest incident would be thorough.
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“This will not be tolerated”, Spring said. Among the members of the committee is the Circle of Brotherhood, an advocacy group that works to provide opportunity for black families.
