Police Shoot Florida Man With His Hands in the Air

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Cell phone video footage of Charles Kinsey, a black man, moments before being shot by North Miami Police was released on Wednesday. The police shooting happened Monday when police arrived on the scene after someone called saying a man was walking around with a gun threatening suicide North Miami Police said reported News 7.

The footage shows Kinsey laying on the ground with his arms up next to another man who is sitting. In the video Kinsey is heard revealing to police that he is a “behavior therapist at a group home” and that the man next to him is a patient who is autistic. Kinsey’s patient had reportedly run away from the group home.

“When I went to the ground, I went to the ground with my hands up,” Kinsey told News 7 raising his hands like he did in the video during an interview from a hospital bed. “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.”