Kinsey was attempting to return his patient to the group home when police confronted the two men.
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The Police Department said the officer involved in the shooting has been placed on administrative leave.
Kinsey is a member of a group called the Circle of Brotherhood, according to Channel 7, which reports that other members of the group visited the North Miami police station Wednesday evening to seek answers about Kinsey’s case.
The shooting comes amid a period of extreme tension over shootings by police and shootings of police. Authorities are investigating the shooting. Social media users point out that Kinsey did everything black people are taught to do during a police encounter and still was shot for a reason no one knows ― not even the cop who pulled the trigger. Standing by his bedside, his wife said, “Right now, I am just grateful that he is alive, and he is able to tell his story”.
But to Kinsey’s boss, that explanation doesn’t add up.
Napoleon did not provide information about who filmed it but he did say there was a two-minute gap in which the person who shot the video had switched off, thinking nothing more noteworthy would happen. “To me, that’s just outrageous”.
The outrage over Monday’s shooting is beyond evident.
Rivera’s statement seems to contradict video of the incident in which Kinsey can be heard identifying himself and his patient and saying his patient was holding a toy.
“Mr. Kinsey is a hero today”. The other two, witnesses said, were on the opposite side of Kinsey, off camera, standing behind a auto in an apartment parking lot, about 150 away. “He has received extensive crisis intervention training”.
In the cell phone recording that shows before shots were fired, Kinsey can be heard trying to reassure the officers that the toy truck the autistic man was carrying was not a weapon. Police ordered Kinsey and the client, who was sitting in the street playing with a toy truck, to lie on the ground. That shooting, captured on cellphone video, provoked widespread protests about police treatment of the black community.
Kinsey told WSVN in a hospital interview that he was stunned that he was shot on Monday afternoon because his hands were in the air. Matthews says he tried to tell an officer who had stayed behind for crowd control, but she told him to back up. Kinsey is lying in the road, on his stomach and handcuffed. He stayed that way for about 20 minutes until an ambulance arrived on scene.
John Rivera, president of the Dade County Police Benevolent Association has said the shooting “was not a mistake”.
Charles Kinsey, a behavioural therapist, had his hands up and said he was unarmed when police marksmen opened fire.
“Many officers thought the white male had a firearm”. Only much later do we find out that the individual was autistic. “The officers on the scene did not know that”, he said.
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“Be responsible in your reporting”, Rivera said in the press conference.
