Unarmed Health Care Worker in Miami Shot by Police While Helping Autistic Man

[SeanTX]

"I don't know" was the officer's response when the man asked why he was shot ... he might as well have just come right out and said "$#@! you, that's why!" ....

Another case of somebody calling the police to help with a "suicidal" person -- they often show up more than happy to assist with that.


http://www.local10.com/news/man-in-g...police-officer

NORTH MIAMI, Fla. - A man is in good condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital after he was shot by a North Miami police officer this week, a hospital representative said.

Police said they were initially called to the area of Northeast 14th Avenue and Northeast 127th Street Monday after they received a call about an armed man threatening suicide.

An employee of an assisted living facility, identified as Charles Kinsey, was shot by an officer while walking with a 23-year-old man with autism, police said.

According to North Miami police spokeswoman Natalie Buissereth, officers "attempted to negotiate" with the men and Kinsey was eventually shot.

Police have not said why the officer shot Kinsey.

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Kinsey's attorney, Hilton Napoleon, told Local 10 News that the officer gave no reason for the shooting.

"My client asked the police, 'Why did he shoot me?' And the officer said, 'I don't know,'" Napoleon said.


Kinsey's lawyer said his client did everything police asked of him, yet they still fired at him.

"He threw his hands in the air as high as he possibly could and he told them, 'There is no need for that. Nobody has a gun. I am a behavioral therapist and I am trying to help this guy,'" Napoleon said.

Police said the autistic man had something in his hand, but Kinsey's lawyer said it was a toy fire truck and could not be mistaken for a gun.

"It is not silver. It is not shiny. It is not black. It doesn't look like a gun," Napoleon said. "In fact, you can see the autistic guy playing with it."

Meanwhile, Kinsey's family said they just want to see the officer punished.

The officer involved in the shooting has been placed on administrative leave as is department policy.

[phill4paul]

Becaue "$#@! you, that's why" is what it is.

[Intoxiklown]

I was just reading about this. It just blows the mind that this happens almost daily, and people can't understand why cops are being shot.

[Anti Federalist]

Becaue "$#@! you, that's why" is what it is.

"we ain't got time for this".

[Anti Federalist]

Kinsey's lawyer said his client did everything police asked of him, yet they still fired at him.

Comply...and you still get shot.

[Anti Federalist]

I was just reading about this. It just blows the mind that this happens almost daily, and people can't understand why cops are being shot.

Or don't want them in a restaurant with them...

[ChristianAnarchist]

Comply...and you still get shot.

Happens way too often...

[bunklocoempire]

"we ain't got time for this".

Yes, this, absolutely.

The scanners buzz daily with police dispatched to "behavioral disorders" and "domestics".

Need therapy? I've got a gun, how may I help you? Madness.

[presence]

Unarmed mental health worker: I had arms raised when shot by policeCBS News‎ - 2 hours ago

Videos show the moments leading up to the police shooting of an autistic man's caregiver ...Florida police officer shoots at man caring for autistic patient as he lay on the ground with his hands upTelegraph.co.uk‎ - 2 hours ago

Helping autistic man, black therapist shot by Florida police: mediaYahoo‎ - 8 hours ago

[Weston White]

Becaue "$#@! you, that's why" is what it is.

There it is.

[pcosmar]

Seriously.

WTF?

AND SOME PEOPLE DO NOT SEE THE PROBLEM YET

[erowe1]

Get ready for this poor guy to get smeared with all kinds of stories about any bad thing he's ever done in the past in order to justify shooting him.

[Intoxiklown]

Out of curiousity, I've been looking to see if Fox covered this story. As far as I can tell, not even a paragrah.

[TheCount]

I bet this guy got a speeding ticket and smoked weed two decades ago.

[buck000]

He didn't comply. No, wait...

The man sitting had a gun in his hand, either he or the man on his back with his hands in the air could have used it to shoot an officer. Best to take them both out.

Pre-crime effort successful.

[liveandletlive]

and there are clowns here who still think black people are exaggerating.

[liveandletlive]

Hope he sues the $#@! out of these pigs.

[heavenlyboy34]

He didn't comply. No, wait...

The man sitting had a gun in his hand, either he or the man on his back with his hands in the air could have used it to shoot an officer. Best to take them both out.

Pre-crime effort successful.

Almost didn't catch your /sarc there. Well done with the webbernet-fu there, comrade. Osu!

[fisharmor]

Seriously.

WTF?

AND SOME PEOPLE DO NOT SEE THE PROBLEM YET

And once they do FINALLY see a problem, they're only about 10% of the way to recognizing that... there isn't a problem.
This is what police do.

You don't blame a hammer for driving nails.

[Brian4Liberty]

The North Miami Police Department told the Miami Herald they were attempting to negotiate with the two men, when one of the repsonding officers discharged his weapon. He has been placed on administrative leave. The investigation has been turned over to the state attorney's office.

Administrative leave? Fired and never hired again is the appropriate reaction. The person is not competent to be in that job.

[Dark_Horse_Rider]

right below this f'd up tale of a good Samaritan gunned down by police

we have this article to emphasize the privilege awarded every white man, woman, and child without exception. Please note the motherly and consciliatory tone of the officer


Tennis bad boys in angry showdown with DC cop

http://nypost.com/2016/07/21/tennis-...n-with-dc-cop/

[heavenlyboy34]

This coverage includes cell phone video: http://filmingcops.com/cop-shoots-ma...ot-to-be-shot/

[heavenlyboy34]

right below this f'd up tale of a good Samaritan gunned down by police

we have this article to emphasize the privilege awarded every white man, woman, and child without exception. Please note the motherly and consciliatory tone of the officer


Tennis bad boys in angry showdown with DC cop

http://nypost.com/2016/07/21/tennis-...n-with-dc-cop/

Bull$#@!. Take the race-baiting nonsense elsewhere. You're just as likely to be harassed, assaulted, and murdered by cops regardless how much melanin is in your skin. CHeck out AF's cop stories. Mostly white vics. The people in the story your posted are white, unless the video is distorting the skin color severely.

War On Us.

[dannno]

I was just reading about this. It just blows the mind that this happens almost daily, and people can't understand why cops are being shot.

Or don't want them in a restaurant with them...

Let me explain the problem.

For years, we had AF posting these kind of stories on an almost daily basis.

Why do you think these stories are all of a sudden big in the media, ever since, oh I dunno, Trayvon Martin? For years they ignored them, now they are not... Is it about $? No. There is an agenda.

When AF was posting these stories, he didn't discriminate based on race or anything, it was always blue vs. mundane.

The media is now using these types of incidents to increase racial tensions..

But here is the real $#@!ty thing. AF post legitimate stories of unarmed people being shot by police all the time. Now we are getting stories of mostly violent criminals, attacking police, grabbing for their firearm and such.

Why do they do that, when there are so much better examples of police brutality and violence?

Because they need to air one side on Fox News and they need to air the other side on CNN/MSNBC. They need ambiguous events, or even better events where the police shooting victim was in the wrong. The leftist media can lie and portray them as a victim, and the leftist community will eat it up. That is because some leftists and a lot of black people know what's up, they have been living in this environment of police brutality and unfairness for a long, long time.

Fox News watchers, on the other hand, don't live in that environment and they can take the cops' side.

My main point here is, I'm pretty anti-cop, but I am very suspicious of a lot of these events being reported by the MSM.

But what will happen is since the media is in the habit of reporting on these shootings, once in a while they are going to hit on one of the legitimate ones, like this one appears to be.

[SeanTX]

Bull$#@!. Take the race-baiting nonsense elsewhere. You're just as likely to be harassed, assaulted, and murdered by cops regardless how much melanin is in your skin. CHeck out AF's cop stories. Mostly white vics. The people in the story your posted are white, unless the video is distorting the skin color severely.

War On Us.

Or, as Eric Peters once put it : "to the police we are ALL n*ggers" ...

I doubt that race plays any role in the shootings of blacks, other than it is a reality that "driving/walking while black" is more likely to initiate a contact with the police.

However, black, white, what ever, any contact that doesn't go the way the Enforcer expects it to can result in a summary execution.

[Dark_Horse_Rider]

Bull$#@!. Take the race-baiting nonsense elsewhere. You're just as likely to be harassed, assaulted, and murdered by cops regardless how much melanin is in your skin. CHeck out AF's cop stories. Mostly white vics. The people in the story your posted are white, unless the video is distorting the skin color severely.

War On Us.

you don't know me heavenlyboy34 ?

you misunderstand my post, I posted this to show the game being played to try and instill resentment

seriously, before you accuse someone of race baiting try reading some of their previous posts, comrade

[TheTexan]

If this man actually did have a weapon in his hands, and were to have raised the weapon at the Officer,

theoretically, its possible, that this Officer could have gotten hurt.

Could have been a close one. Fortunately, the threat to this brave Officer's life was only theoretical. I'm glad he's OK.

[euphemia]

I'm just now seeing the video. What a mess. I don't blame people for being mad. I'm mad.

[euphemia]

I'm just now seeing the video. This is a real mess. I don't see any way to spin this that will make the police look in any way justified.

[heavenlyboy34]

And once they do FINALLY see a problem, they're only about 10% of the way to recognizing that... there isn't a problem.
This is what police do.

You don't blame a hammer for driving nails.

Exactly this^^. Ask a cop (and I have), and they'll tell you they're just doing what they're trained to do. Thanks, Law And Order Conservatives for this dystopian nightmare you've created.