WTF POLICE SHOOTING VIDEO OF THE DAY

Let’s here the excuses from the copfuck lovers on this site. Another hero doing his job. Right?

An unarmed behavioral therapist says he was shot by police in North Miami while lying on the ground with his arms up and trying to help his autistic patient, who had run away from a group home.

Charles Kinsey, 47, was shot once in the leg and is recovering in the hospital, he told WSVN-TV.

He was next to his 23-year-old patient, who was playing with a toy truck while sitting cross-legged in the middle of the road, a video of the moments before the shooting shows. You can watch the video above.

The head of the police union told the Miami Herald the officer thought Kinsey was in danger and was aiming at the autistic patient, and missed.

Police had responded to the area near Northeast 14th Avenue and Northeast 127th Street for a report of an armed man threatening suicide about 5 p.m. on July 18, WPLG-TV reports

But Kinsey says the “armed man” was his confused patient, who was holding a toy truck, not a gun.

“All he has is a toy truck. A toy truck. I am a behavioral therapist at a group home,” Kinsey can be heard saying to the officers before he was shot.

He told WSVN he asked the officer why he shot him, and the officer replied, “I don’t know.”

Kinsey said he was more concerned about his patient.

“I was thinking as long as I have my hands up, they’re not going to shoot me,” Kinsey told the news station. “This is what I’m thinking, ‘they’re not going to shoot me.’ Wow, was I wrong.”

The officer involved in the shooting, a 30-year-old Hispanic male, has not yet been named. The shooting itself was not caught on the cell phone camera.

Charles Kinsey told the officers he and the autistic patient were not armed, and asked them not to shoot them. The officers were armed with rifles.

“When I went to the ground, I’m going to the ground just like this here with my hands up,” Kinsey said told WSVN-TV, raising his arms while in his hospital bed. “And I am laying down here just like this, and I’m telling them again, ‘Sir, there is no need for firearms. I’m unarmed, he’s an autistic guy. He got a toy truck in his hand.’”

Police later said they had eyewitnesses telling them there was a gun at the scene, and a 911 caller also saying that. But no gun was found.

Kinsey told the news station the officer fired three times, hitting him once, in the leg.

“I’m like this right here, and when he shot me, it was so surprising,” said Kinsey. “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.”

At a Thursday press conference the Miami-Dade Police Benevolent Association said the officer was a member of the SWAT team. PBA President John Rivera told reporters the officers were trying to help Kinsey:

There was a call about a suicidal man with a gun, the officers already heard that. When they arrived they saw two men, Mr. Kinsey and the other individual, the white male, and it appeared to the officers that the white male was trying to do harm to Mr. Kinsey. The officers, realizing and believing that there was a firearm, and many officers thought the white male had a firearm, only much later when we were able to Monday morning quarterback do we find out it was a toy. Only much later do we find out that the individual was autistic. The officers on the scene did not know that. And fearing for Mr. Kinsey’s life, the officer discharged his firearm, trying to save Mr. Kinsey’s life. And he missed, and accidentally struck Mr. Kinsey. He thought the white male and his actions were such that he felt Mr. Kinsey’s life was in danger.

Rivera also said the video from the scene “is being portrayed poorly.”

He said “many in the media are saying you can clearly hear Mr. Kinsey. Well if you can clearly hear Mr. Kinsey, why does every news outlet have to put subtitles. You can’t clearly hear Mr. Kinsey.”

Rivera said the officer couldn’t hear what Kinsey was saying.

He also said the person who filmed the incident did so at a different vantage point and from much closer than where the officers were.

“They flipped me over, and I’m faced down in the ground, with cuffs on, waiting on the rescue squad to come,” Kinsey told the news station. “I’d say about 20, about 20 minutes it took the rescue squad to get there. And I was like, bleeding — I mean bleeding and I was like, ‘Wow.’”

He said his life flashed before his eyes when he was shot, and he thought about his family. His wife was at his bedside Wednesday.

“Right now, I am just grateful that he is alive, and he is able to tell his story,” she told WSVN.

According to the Miami Herald, Kinsey is likely to be released from the hospital Thursday and is expected to fully recover.

The Dade County Police Benevolent Association said at a press conference that they wish the best for Kinsey and the officer involved in the shooting is praying for his “speedy recovery.”

The police union head also read a statement from the officer, in which he said, “I took this job to save lives and help people. I did what I had to do in a split-second to accomplish that. And hate to hear others paint me as something I am not.”