Black therapist says police shot him with his hands raised

“There is no justification, heightened alert or not, to shoot an unarmed man laying on the ground with his hands in the air who is telling you that no one has a gun and the person here is autistic”, Napoleon said.

“At some point during the on-scene negotiation” with the two men, one of the officers fired, striking Kinsey, police said.

“As long as I’ve got my hands up, they’re not gonna shoot me, that’s what I’m thinking”, Kinsey said. This is what I’m thinking. Two weeks earlier, two white officers in Baton Rouge killed a black man, Alton Sterling, 37, on July 5 during a scuffle at a convenience store. In Minnesota, 32-year-old Philando Castile, who was also black, was shot to death during a traffic stop.

Mobile phone footage captured Mr Sterling’s killing and the aftermath of Mr Castile’s shooting, prompting nationwide protests over the treatment of blacks by police.

The officer involved in the shooting has not yet been named and Chief Gary Eugene of the North Miami Police declined to release details.

“Bringing in an outside agency assures our commitment to transparency and objectivity in a very sensitive matter”, he said.

“I realize there may be questions about what happened on Monday night”.

The motto “if you see something, say something”, is still being stressed, but experts say it’s also important for people to sure of what they’re seeing before calling police.

The North Miami Police Department said in a statement that officers responded to a call of an armed suspect threatening suicide. The therapist, Charles Kinsey, was trying to help his autistic patient who had run away from a group home.

During the incident, the patient had a toy truck; Kinsey says he had been anxious for the patient’s safety and was surprised that he himself was shot – he tells Channel 7 that he had his hands up as high as he could get them, and had obeyed an order to lie on the ground.

“Lay down on your stomach”, Kinsey says to his patient in the video, which was shot from a distance and provided to the Miami Herald (http://hrld.us/2ahReMa). The autistic man was beside him, sitting cross-legged and upright with the toy truck in his hand. The patient is holding a toy truck, he yells out. I’m unarmed, he’s an autistic guy. “He has a toy truck in his hand, ‘” Kinsey told station WSVN after the shooting.

“When you shoot a man lying on the ground with his hands up, explaining to you the situation, and you shoot him anyway?” For all those searching for more information about the incident and are Googling, “Charles Kinsey wiki”, “who is Charles Kinsey”, “Charles Kinsey shot”, and “Charles Kinsey Miami”, you’ve come to the right place because we’ll give you all the information you need to know about the unfortunate tragedy.

An officer has been placed under administrative leave. A cellphone video provided by Kinsey’s attorney Hilton Napoleon clearly shows Kinsey lying supine with his arms raised. “North Miami is a city where the police officers and the community gel”, she said.

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. “Freezing. But he was still shot”, said Wilson, a Democrat.

Ms. Wilson said her office has monthly meetings with local police and that officers live in and are well-known in the community.