Kinsey was reportedly released from the hospital Thursday.
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Aledda, who is Hispanic, has been placed on paid administrative leave while the shooting is investigated. “North Miami is a city where the police officers and the community gel”, she said. “This will not be tolerated”. Emile Hollant, was suspended without pay after the incident.
“This is a case where a police officer was trying to save Mr. Kinsey’s life, and unfortunately, his shot went astray”, Rivera said. Kinsey is lying in the road, on his stomach and handcuffed.
North Miami also released Aledda’s personnel file Friday.
The video doesn’t show what happened when the officer opened fire.
In 2014, Aledda received commendations for making 28 arrests in one month and for the capture of two men on a robbery spree.
Aledda was exonerated from the allegations after investigators determined that he used the amount of force he believed was necessary after being given a description of the subject over the police radio. Though the man turned out to be a victim of that crime, Aledda was cleared of any misconduct.
Kinsey’s shooting comes after a pair of officer-involved shootings led to the deaths of two men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, kicking off a period of national unrest and putting the spotlight again on police use of force, particularly against black men.
In dispatch audio obtained by CBS Miami, an officer is heard saying “He’s loading up his weapon”, apparently referring to the autistic man who was holding a toy truck. Kinsey, in a yellow shirt and dark shorts, was standing beside him.
Kinsey said he was trying to coax the autistic man back to a home he had wandered from.
Cellphone video shows Kinsey lying on his back Monday with his hands in the air in the area of Northeast 14th Avenue and 127th Street.
“I was really more anxious about him than myself”, Kinsey said of the patient. There is no need for guns. Then he says, “Reynaldo, please be still Reynaldo”. At the time, Aledda was listed as being in the department’s patrol section.
Kinsey’s employer, Clint Bower says, “The PBA is now trying to say that they meant to shoot my client and accidentally shot my employee”.
On Thursday night, about 40 Black Lives Matter demonstrators held a protest at the North Miami police department demanding that the officer be fired.
Kinsey said the footage showed the moment when he tried to persuade police not to harm his patient.
He told WSVN the shooting came as a shock and felt like a mosquito bite.
Although the unnamed police officer and the head of the Miami-Dade Police Benevolent Association, John Rivera, meant to inject calm into the national fervor surrounding an epidemic of police shootings of unarmed black men, the admission may also indicate a need for greater sensitivity in police dealings with mentally ill people, disabled people, and people in emotional distress.
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. As it stands now, individual states have guidelines, but police departments within the states are allowed to tighten those requirements. “This is not a case of police abuse”, he said. “The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has since taken over for a thorough investigation”. Kinsey, 47, got down on the pavement and put his hands up while trying to get the patient to comply, North Miami Assistant Police Chief Neal Cuevas told The Miami Herald.
On Friday, Napoleon said he found the cop’s explanation implausible.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch also said Thursday that the Justice Department was aware of the incident and was working with local officials to glean more information.
“If he’s aiming at the autistic kid, how he could miss”, Napoleon said.
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Thomas Matthews says he watched the buildup to Monday’s shooting of Charles Kinsey by North Miami police officers through binoculars.
