Since the shooting, Gladys Soto, Rios’ mother, said her son is now traumatized by an event that his feeble mind can not comprehend, repeating “blood” and “shooting” over and over. He has been placed on administrative leave. “This will not be tolerated”.
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A second North Miami officer, Cmdr. The Police Department said on its Facebook page Thursday evening that the officer is a 30-year-old Hispanic. North Miami City Manager Larry Spring Jr added that Aledda was a four-year police department veteran.
Charles Kinsey’s uncle, Daniel Kinsey, is a pastor at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Lubbock. He ran a North Miami flower shop before retiring and has lived in the area for years.
North Miami officials vowed on Friday the investigation of the latest incident would be thorough.
The agency said officers responded to a 911 call about an armed man threatening to commit suicide, and opened fire after police attempted to negotiate.
She said she understands why police may have missed the signals, even though the therapist said he told officers the man was autistic and that he had a toy truck. Kinsey, in a yellow shirt and dark shorts, was standing beside him.
“When he hit me, I’m like, I still got my hands in the air”, he said.
Kinsey said he was trying to coax the autistic man back to a home he had wandered from. They ordered him to the ground and he complied with his hands up in the air. In the video, Kinsey can be heard trying to explain the situation. “There’s no need for guns”.
Kinsey yelled at officers in an attempt to tell them he was unarmed, but after several minutes he was shot in the leg.
Kinsey told CNN affiliate WSVN-TV in Miami that after the shooting, he was flipped over and handcuffed.
Video of the shooting itself hasn’t surfaced.
“He knows he made a mistake”, Pastor Kinsey said. He believes the person who recorded the incident turned the camera off before the shooting, then back on after Kinsey was struck.
So far in 2016, America has seen increasing unrest over controversy regarding police’s use of excessive force. As it stands now, individual states have guidelines, but police departments within the states are allowed to tighten those requirements.
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.
Mayor Smith Joseph has apologized to the wounded man and promised a complete investigation of the shooting.
“Mr. Kinsey did everything right, let’s be real clear about that”, Rivera said.
Kinsey’s lawyer, Hilton Napoleon, on Friday cast doubt on the union leader’s explanation.
“If he’s aiming at the autistic kid, how he could miss”, Napoleon said.
An officer later fired three times, striking Kinsey in the leg, assistant police chief Neal Cuevas told the newspaper. “This is a case where a police officer was trying to save Mr. Kinsey’s life, and unfortunately, his shot went astray”. A shop owner said Aledda shoved him against the wall and arrested him after other officers wrongly identified him as a robbery suspect.
Also Friday, Clint Bower, president and CEO at the facility where Kinsey works, called the behavioral therapist a “special hero, ‘ and said he was “appalled” at Monday’s events”.
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Aledda was exonerated of any wrongdoing, but this businessman says he still lives in fear after his experience.
