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Springsteen
07-21-2016, 11:27 AM
http://wsvn.com/news/local/video-shows-moments-before-north-miami-police-shot-unarmed-man/


A therapist who works with people with disabilities is telling his story after he said police shot him while he was trying to help his patient with autism.

Cellphone video was released Wednesday afternoon showing Charles Kinsey lying on the ground with his hands in the air, telling officers that weapons are not necessary. “When I went to the ground, I went to the ground with my hands up,” Kinsey said, “and I am laying there just like this. Telling them again there is no need for firearms. He is autistic. He has a toy truck in his hand.”

In his hospital bed and wearing bandages, Kinsey said, he was attempting to calm an autistic patient who ran away from a group home. Kinsey could be heard in the video saying, “All he has is a toy truck. A toy truck. I am a behavior therapist at a group home.”

He is also heard asking his patient to calm down. “Rinaldo, please be still, Rinaldo. Sit down, Rinaldo. Lay on your stomach.”

The ordeal went on for a few minutes before Kinsey said one of the officers shot him. “I’m like this right here, and when he shot me, it was so surprising,” Kinsey said. “I thought it was a mosquito bite, and when it hit me I had my hands in the air, and I’m thinking I just got shot! And I’m saying, ‘Sir, why did you shoot me?’ and his words to me were, ‘I don’t know.'”

Wasn't someone on here the other day talking about how that old man who got paralyzed by cops should've laid down when the cops approached him?

How will he spin this one? :rolleyes:

sd3035
07-21-2016, 11:33 AM
http://wsvn.com/news/local/video-shows-moments-before-north-miami-police-shot-unarmed-man/



Wasn't someone on here the other day talking about how that old man who got paralyzed by cops should've laid down when the cops approached him?

How will he spin this one? :rolleyes:

being shot in the leg > paralyzed

Springsteen
07-21-2016, 11:35 AM
being shot in the leg > paralyzed

Why should we be comparing how one is less worse than the other?

Shouldn't we be focusing on how to reform trigger-happy and needlessly aggressive law enforcement?

highwhey
07-21-2016, 11:42 AM
http://wsvn.com/news/local/video-shows-moments-before-north-miami-police-shot-unarmed-man/



Wasn't someone on here the other day talking about how that old man who got paralyzed by cops should've laid down when the cops approached him?

How will he spin this one? :rolleyes:
that was uk who suggested laying down. he's currently melting down trying to come up with an excuse for the office this time.