Tell me what this man could have done to not get shot. He was literally laying on the ground with both his hands up.
Charles Kinsey, a mental health therapist, was shot by police in
North Miami, Florida. Kinsey, an African-American man, had been retrieving his
autistic 23-year-old patient, Arnaldo Rios Soto, who had wandered from his
group home. Police encountered the pair while searching for an armed suicidal man. Kinsey was lying on the ground with his hands in the air and trying to negotiate between officers and his patient when he was shot.
Both Kinsey and his patient were unarmed. Following the shooting, Kinsey stated he was handcuffed and left bleeding on the ground for 20 minutes with police giving him no medical aid. Authorities stated that they were investigating the incident, which received significant media attention following the appearance of cellphone video footage. The officer who shot Kinsey was arrested in 2017 and charged with attempted manslaughter and negligence. However, he remains employed and has not been terminated.
Of course the shooting was ruled justified. His excuse for shooting the black guy with his hands up is that he meant to shoot the autistic patient with a toy truck. Of course he still has his job.