Miami Police Officer Shot Innocent Unarmed Black Man As He Protected Autistic Patient Then Says He Doesn’t Know Why He Fired At Him (Video)

A Miami Police officer shot 46-year-old therapist, Charles Kinsey, who was caring for his 23-year-old autistic student. Kinsey and the student were on the ground. Kinsey, a black man, had his hands up in surrender and was laying on his back stating, “Don’t shoot me” and informed the officers his autistic patient had a toy truck in his hand and not a gun. 

The police officer opened fire shooting at Kinsey three times. Kinsey was shot in the leg. Kinsey exclaimed, “Sir, why did you shoot me?” The officer responded “I don’t know.” Rather than get Kinsey help, the officer cuffed and arrested him and his autistic patient. Foul! 

The officer’s name is being withheld by North Miami Beach Police Chief Gary Eugene. It has since been revealed police were trying to shoot the autistic man, which is even worse on their part. The officer should face criminal charges and be stripped of his badge, because if he does something like this again, he could kill an innocent person. Kinsey should sue them as well. However, police are already discussing a potential settlement. 

Police shot Charles Kinsey who was laying on the ground, hands up in surrender and stating "Don't shoot me!" Kinsey disabled, autistic patient sits beside him understandably confused at why they are being criminally harassed by police.
 

This is not the first time something like this has happened in Miami. It reminds me of a similar story regarding what transpired in Miami in 2011, regarding one of the disabled adult students at the school my mother used to teach. All the students were wonderful, mentally disabled adults who were learning life skills and how to function in the world. It was great to see them grow as people in learning everyday things you and I often taken for granted. 

One of the disabled students who attended the school was a 56-year-old mentally impaired black man named Ernest. He was a kind, sweet and humorous man, who due to his mental disability, had the mental age of an 8-year-old. He was a very nice man and good person loved by all who knew him. He would say things that made people smile or laugh. 

One day he found a toy gun on the street that fascinated him. Officers confronted him. An officer yelled at him regarding the toy, believing the gun was real and shot and killed him. Ernest's neighbors on the street stated to reporters that police should have known he was disabled. If they had talked to Ernest for even a few seconds they would have realized he was mentally disabled. However, they didn't bother. They killed him instead. Everybody was devastated. Ernest was killed like his life wasn’t worth anything. He didn’t deserve that. Nothing came of the incident, as the police officer got away with it, while Ernest lost his life. It was not right. However, that's the justice system for you - corrupt.

Charles Kinsey reenacts the shooting in the hospital to illustrate the injustice that transpired against him
 

It was piss poor police work. And this is what troubles me about so many incidents like this, the ease and quickness with which some, not all officers, take a life. Why be so confrontational. Why not exercise some consideration for human life. Why not be negotiators instead of adversarial individuals so aggressively confronting others. 

In some cases select officer are putting themselves in trouble in going right up to people then killing them (Alton Sterling, Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, Eric Garner and many others). Why not maintain a safe distance and negotiate with the subject. Talk to them from a safe space. Even use the bull horn from your squad car. Why charge right up to people and shot within seconds, then claim your life was in danger. That’s a load of crap. You put your life in danger doing that and often against unarmed people. 

If criminals open fire on police, then yes, officers' lives are most certainly in danger. But to shoot at a person who has their arms up in surrender or has their back turned to you running away is patently wrong. That’s not justice. That’s an execution. That’s vengeance. That’s anger and vindictiveness stating through actions, "How dare you run away from me." 

Once again, not all officer do this, but some do and thousands of people in America have died brutal deaths because of it. Officers owe the public a duty of care. At the end of the day, some people just aren't cut out to be police officers and innocent people paid for it with their lives (Police Officer Who Shot And Killed 12-Year-Old Black Boy Was Initially Rejected From The Police Force As 'Mentally Unprepared' And 'Weepy').

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N. Miami Beach Officer Shoots Mentally Disabled Man Carrying Toy Gun
 

August 31, 2011 11:15 PM - North Miami Beach Police are piecing together an officer-involved shooting that left a mentally disabled man dead early Wednesday evening. Officers tell CBS4′s Natalia Zea that a man carrying a rifle was seen walking through a neighborhood in the area of Northeast 155th Terrace and 14th Avenue. 

Witnesses say the man even pointing the rifle at a dog at one point. Police say several neighbors called 911 to report the incident. Police say when officers arrived, there was some sort of confrontation and one officer to open fire on the man. But their investigation revealed that the “rifle” was in fact, a realistic looking toy. The injured man was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital where he later died. 

Family members say the man police killed is 56-year-old Ernest Vassell. “They murdered him in cold blood for a toy gun!” cried Vassell’s older sister Claire Harding. “That’s no reason for you to kill somebody!” Vassell’s sisters say they have never seen him with a toy gun, they believe he must have found it somewhere. They say he was mentally disabled after a brain injury as a child and that he has never been violent. 

“They could tell him to drop the gun, they say they told him to drop it and he raised his hand, he probably raised his hand to hand them the gun because he is afraid of police,” said Harding. The family is demanding answers and changes to the North Miami Beach Police Department. “They should train these police officers better,” said Harding. “This is ridiculous, they just go around killing people for nothing.” 

Police maintain the toy gun appeared to be a real rifle. One officer is on administrative leave while police and the state attorney’s office investigate. 

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Eric Garner being put in a fatal chokehold by police (right)

The New York Police Department (NYPD) has settled a police brutality lawsuit filed by the family of Eric Garner, who was killed last year while being arrested. Garner's family is being paid $5,900,000 in compensation over his death. Garner was killed due to a chokehold administered by police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, while he and fellow officers swarmed him on a sidewalk.

  

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28-year-old Baltimore resident Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, shot and killed two New York Police officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, as they sat in a patrol car, whilst on duty in Brooklyn, New York. After shooting his girlfriend in Baltimore, Brinsley traveled to New York to exact revenge on police for the deaths of Eric Garner and Mike Brown.

Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley

Brinsley crept up on the officer's patrol car from behind and shot them in the head in a terrible ambush attack. Brinsley's mother stated he has struggled with mental illness his entire life and tried to commit suicide at age 13. He was an aspiring rapper, who made troubled posts on social networking espousing violence against police. 

 

Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu

As the Judiciary Report has repeatedly stated, there are good and bad cops out there. You can't paint everyone with the same brush, writing off all police nor should you seek to take the law into your own hands in harming an officer of the law. This was not self-defense. This was the execution of two police officers who were not engaged in any wrongdoing. Violence only begets more violence. They key is to stop murders, not create more. That does not solve anything, only makes things worse.

U.S. President Barack Obama And Republican House Speaker John Boehner Address Ongoing Racial Protests Regarding Police Brutality In America (Video)

President Barack Obama talks about racial tension in wake of protests across America

U.S. President, Barack Obama, spoke about the racial tensions in America, which have risen due to cases of police brutality plaguing the country. Black people have been killed by police using excessive force, while others were brutalized on camera, in incidents filmed by citizens witnessing the sad displays.

John Boehner

House Speaker, Republican, John Boehner, stated regarding the matter, "The American people deserve more answers about what really happened here and was our system of justice handled properly." Protests all over America certainly indicate the public is demanding answers. Something must be done to stop the injustice.

 

Protests in New York

Protests have erupted all over America again, regarding people speaking out against the ongoing injustices transpiring. Thousands of people in New York marched all over the city, including at City Hall and the New York Police Department. Other protests are being conducted in many other cities across America, such as Seattle, Los Angeles, Oakland, Washington, Baltimore, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Cleveland, among others, demanding an end to police brutality.

Cleveland Cops Put On Administrative Leave After Racist Text Messages Surface With Them Stating They 'Hate Ni*gers'

  

Michael Sollenberger (left) and Thomas Flanders (right)

The Cleveland Division of Police is currently embroiled in a scandal, regarding the shooting death of 12-year-old black boy, Tamir Rice, who was playing with a toy gun in the park, when officer, Timothy Loehmann, abruptly opened fire on the child. Two days later, Rice died in the hospital of his injuries. Shortly after, news of Loehmann's dismal personnel records surfaced, indicating he was forced out of another police squad, due to serious deficiencies in his performance as an officer and a troubled mental state.

A new scandal has emerged, as text messages between Cleveland police officers, Michael Sollenberge and Thomas Flanders, were packed with racial slurs. One of the text messages states, "I hate ni*gers." Another text stated, "'What do apples and black people have in common? They both hang from trees."

This comes at a time when the public (black, white, Hispanic, Indian and Asian) are protesting flagrant cases of police brutality and excessive force in America, in the fall out of the Eric Garner killing in New York, at the hands of New York Police Department officer, Daniel Pantaleo and Mike Brown's shooting death by officer Darren Wilson.

It is clear some, not all police officers have racial issues concerning minorities. People have the right to like or dislike whomever they choose, even if it is based on race. However, when it starts to interfere with your job as a public servant and you begin to treat people differently based on their race, especially in a deadly manner, this is wholly illegal and unethical. Something must be legally done within the scope of the law to stop police brutality, which is unquestionably on the rise in America, as evidenced by a number of high profile cases (some of which were covered on the Judiciary Report yesterday).

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After conducted a three-month-long investigation to ensure their authenticity, Derrick Forward - the civil rights organization’s local president - turned the messages over to Sheriff Phil Plumber last week. The texts were exchanged between November 2011 and January 2013 on personal cell phones between the employees during working hours.

They contain a barrage of racist slurs and insensitive jokes aimed at African-Americans. One text said, 'I hate N******. That is all.' One deputy 'joked' to another: 'What do apples and black people have in common? They both hang from trees.' Another read: 'We stopped at a Walmart in Birmingham, there are a lot of Black people in Alabama. It's all Martin Luther Kings fault.'...

 

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Ramsey Orta

His wife, Chrissie Orta, stated he is being targeted over the mobile phone video he filmed and uploaded to You Tube showing Garner's death that was a direct result of police brutality and excessive force. The video has since been viewed 900,000 times on the You Tube page Orta placed it on and several million more times on other pages that have reposted the video. The video then hit mainstream news channels all over America, creating an even larger scandal.    

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Racial tensions among police and the public continue to worsen in America, as another white police officer has been allowed to escape without answering in a court of law, in the death of an unarmed black man. Last month it was police officer Darren Wilson the grand jury let escape scot-free in Ferguson, Missouri, regarding the shooting death of unarmed black teen, Mike Brown. Wilson shot Brown 6 times in cold blood. 

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This month it is unarmed black man, Eric Garner, who has been denied justice in death. New York police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, put Garner in a chokehold. Despite the defenseless man's protests that he cannot breathe, the pile on of officers continue for several minutes, with Pantaleo essentially choking Garner to death. 

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A New York grand jury cleared the officer of any wrongdoing, despite the fact a medical examiner stated the chokehold and compressions killed Garner. This is an injustice. The chokehold was unnecessary. To further ignore a man's pleas for air for minutes, while you choke the life out of his body, via excessive force and police brutality, is murder. 

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