“In North Miami, the relationship between the police and community has always been great, and we can not let one incident destroy that relationship”. Kinsey said he had been trying to calm a patient with autism who had run from a nearby group home.
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“Sometimes police officers make mistakes, because at the end of the day they are not computers”, Association President John Rivera told Reuters. “They threw him on the ground”, Dietz said. “As a disability advocate, I was outraged”. The officer tried to shoot the man he thought was attacking Kinsey, but mistakenly shot Kinsey instead, Rivera said.
The man with autism who police union officials in North Miami say was the intended target in an accidental shooting of his unarmed caregiver was left “traumatized” by the incident, his family said Saturday. Video that shows Kinsey prone on the ground with his hands held high before the shooting sparked fresh calls for US police to review their use-of-force policies.
“All he has is a toy truck in his hands”, Kinsey yelled in the video, referring to his patient. The Police Department said on its Facebook page Thursday evening that the officer is a 30-year-old Hispanic.
“I have made it clear that I will not tolerate anything that goes against the process”, the mayor said. A shop owner said Aledda shoved him against the wall and arrested him after other officers wrongly identified him as a robbery suspect.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the State Attorney’s Office is investigating the case while Aledda is on paid administrative leave.
“I took this job to save lives and help people”, according to the officer’s text statement.
Pensacola police Sgt. Jimmy Donohoe, who also teaches classes for the Autism Society, said officers shouldn’t be expected to be “roadside clinical evaluators” – but there are characteristics to recognize. Spring declined to give specifics about how Hollant allegedly fabricated information about Monday’s shooting of Charles Kinsey by Officer Jonathan Aledda. “They’re not going to shoot me”, he told WSVN-TV from his hospital bed, where he was recovering from a gunshot wound to his leg. “Wow, was I wrong”.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch told reporters the Justice Department is aware of the shooting and working with local law enforcement to gather all of the facts and to decide how to proceed.
“The guy is trying to communicate, ‘Hey, I’m an aid worker and this guy wandered away.’ Why in the world the police don’t know even that there is a residential place for people who are emotionally compromised?” he said.
Miriam Soto said her brother is suffering from night terrors and is not sleeping or eating. The situation escalated, and Kinsey quickly lay down on the ground with his hands in the air.
In the past month, deadly shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota were followed by eight police officers being targeted and killed in Dallas and Baton Rouge.
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“He totally violated his trust from the public to protect and serve by giving disinformation to this department”, North Miami Councilman Scott Galvin told the media July 22, according to WTVJ.
