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. 

http://miami.cbslocal.com

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Joseph Kauser (left) and Jeronimo Yanez (right)
 

Minnesota police officer, Jeronimo Yanez, is set to be sued by the family of Philando Castile, the innocent man he racially profiled and murdered this past week during a deceitful traffic stop. The Castile family has retained the legal services of television attorney, Judge Glenda Hatchett. Yanez and his partner, Joseph Kauser, stopped Castile, using the lie he had a broken taillight. However, it was later discovered the police officers sent a message to the control center revealing they intended to stop Castile in traffic, as he has a "wide set nose" and could be the man who robbed a store. This was textbook racial profiling. You cannot ask for a more accurate example of racial profiling. It is also the offensive stereotype, "All black people look alike."

Yanez demanded Castile produce his license from his pocket. When Castile reached for his identification, the innocent motorist was shot five times by Yanez. One has to wonder if they were looking for an excuse to kill him. Castile had no felony criminal record (he has driving violations for not wearing a seat belt, speeding) and was gainfully employed in a school cafeteria feeding young kids. Castile followed police instructions, but was killed anyway.

 

 
Judge Glenda Hatchett (left) and Valerie Castile at a press conference yesterday announcing the forthcoming lawsuit
 

Whenever a black man is killed by police, select members of the press like to state the victim had a criminal record, as if this somehow excuses racial profiling and murder (it does not). Well, what's the excuse regarding killing Castile. If Castile was your brother, son or father, you would want justice to be done. Therefore, certain callous people need to stop acting like it's not a big deal. It is a big deal. An innocent man died a horrible death, due to racism and crappy police work.

Once again, as I have stated on this site in the past, as a police officer, why go directly up to someone you believe to be a criminal and engage them in conflict. If I were a police officer, I'd turn on the squad car siren/lights indicating the motorist in question should pull over, then use the loud horn (bullhorn) to state, "Get out of the car, lay down on the ground on your stomach with your hands stretched outward."

 
Philando Castile dying in his car after being shot by Jeronimo Yanez
 

It's the same story with Alton Sterling, the black man that was murdered by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana last week, after a hasty, questionable confrontation. If they believed he was so dangerous, why charge up to him, tase him, tackle him to the ground in a forceful manner, kneel on his hands, then seconds later shoot him in the chest 6 times, while lying he had a gun in his hand. That was outright assault and murder. What kind of crappy police work is that.

It's the same story with Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old that was murdered by police in Ohio. Why drive right up to a child holding a toy gun and within 2-seconds open fire killing the 12-year-old. As stated in the column previously, why did they not maintain a safe distance (The Public Outraged At The Grand Jury Not Returning An Indictment In The Tamir Rice Murder and Blame The Victim?). This nonsensical behavior on the part of some, not all, police officers indicates a serious problem endangering the public.

It's poor police work on the part of some officers. There are police officers who question and even bring people in without incident. However, when you have select officers adding racism, racial profiling, anger and paranoia regarding black people to the mix, preventable tragedies will occur.

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Just when you thought it couldn't get any more insulting it does and on a new level. News reports indicate the brutal shooting death of motorist, Philando Castile, with his girlfriend and 4-year-old child present in the car, was not for the reasons police initially claimed. Castile was summarily executed by police officer Jeronimo Yanez. The incident, along with the police killing of Alton Sterling, sparked protests in America and other parts of the world, due to it being the product of racism and police brutality. It also led to the shooting deaths of 5 police officers in a retaliatory killing by army reservist Micah Xavier Johnson.

Philando Castile's girlfriend Diamond Reynolds witnessed his murder and streamed the aftermath via mobile phone video on Facebook, which shocked social networking users due to its brutality
 

Police initially stated Castile was driving with a broken taillight, which is why they claimed he was pulled over by police. However, the photos from the crime scene revealed otherwise, which many on social networking began publicly pointing out. Two days later, police acknowledged Castile was pulled over for having a "wide nose" which in their estimation looked like a black man who had held up a store.

Jeronimo Yanez
 

This case is beyond insulting. The racial stereotypes, evidence tampering in trying to delete video footage of the killing from Facebook, lying, fraud, defamation of an innocent man and extreme lack of courtesy shown to Castile, who make no mistake, was racially profiled, is disgraceful. Yanez must be prosecuted within the scope of the law for costing an innocent man his life and for the disturbing cover-up that ensued. Any other police employee that aided in the cover up and evidence tampering should face criminal prosecution as well. 

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Castile family responds to police scanner audio
 

 3 days ago - ST.PAUL - The uncle of Philando Castile told KARE 11 the police scanner audio we obtained is an example of racial profiling. A KARE 11 viewer, who gave us audio clips of police radio traffic, claims they captured the moments just before Philando Castile and his girlfriend were stopped by St. Anthony police – which ended with police fatally shooting Castile. 

KARE 11 has attempted to confirm the authenticity of the recording with police officials, but so far they have not responded. We have verified that the license plate mentioned by police in the recording matches the plate of the car Castile was driving. The location the officer gives also corresponds to the locations of the traffic stop. 

“I’m going to stop a car,” the officer says on the recording. “I’m going to check IDs. I have reason to pull it over.” “The two occupants just look like people that were involved in a robbery,” the officer says. “The driver looks more like one of our suspects, just ‘cause of the wide set nose,” the officer continues. 

Diamond Reynolds said she and her deceased boyfriend did not match the descriptions on the audio clip. Philando Castile’s uncle, Clarence Castile, called the traffic stop an example of racial profiling. “I just thought it was kind of insane to pull somebody over saying they matched a robbery suspect by having flared nostrils,” Clarence Castile said. “It is kind of hard to see flared nostrils from a car...

 
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Micah Xavier Johnson

25-year-old Army Reservist, Micah Xavier Johnson, shot and killed 5 police officers in Dallas, Texas last night. Johnson also injured 7 police officers and wounded 2 civilians. He has no criminal record. Johnson opened fire on police during a peaceful protest in downtown Dallas, as people gathered to voice their disapproval of the killings of African-Americans Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands of police in two separate incidents of excessive force. A police bomb squad robot killed Johnson.

Johnson clearly snapped to have taken such a detrimental and deadly course of action against police
 

This was a senseless tragedy that is a waste of life all around, both the police officers and Johnson. There is a problem with police brutality against black people in America. Hundreds of African-Americans are killed every year by police. It is wrong and must stop. However, the answer is not killing police. Two wrongs don't make a right. You don't fight crime with crime. You enact meaningful legislation changing the law to promote safety for civilians and police. The Judiciary Report has repeatedly emphasized in articles that there are good cops doing their jobs, who don't deserve to be classed with the ones engaging in brutality against members of the public. The bad cops are the ones who need to be addressed and through Congress and the court system. 

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32-year-old Philando Castile, was shot dead in front of his girlfriend and their 4-year-old daughter, during a traffic stop over a broken car taillight in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Castile, a licensed gun owner informed the officer, Jeronimo Yanez, he had a weapon and permit in the vehicle. This is what gun owners are told to do when stopped by law enforcement. The police officer asked Castile for his driver's license. When Castile attempted to reach into his pocket for his driver's license, contained in his wallet, the police officer became agitated. Then, the officer changed his mind told Castile to put his hands in the air and when he peacefully did, the policeman shot Castile 4 times, killing him. This constitutes murder. 

Diamond Reynolds, Castile's girlfriend in the passenger seat, quickly began filming and uploading the aftermath of the shooting to her Facebook page, realizing the police officer is corrupt. Reynold's and Castile's 4-year old daughter told her mother, "It's ok. I'm right here with you." Reynolds was then cuffed and she and her 4-year-old daughter taken to the police station. Reynolds and her child were separated at the jail and unlawfully detained for approximately 12-hours and with no food or water, which constitutes civil rights violations. It was absolutely sinister. They had no right to hold Reynolds and her child. The police were also in the wrong separating mother from child. 

Philando Castile dying in his car

A police officer illegally confiscated Reynolds phone and engaged in evidence tampering in having the video removed from Facebook. However, many people had already seen the video that was downloaded and began circulating online. Within a short space of time, the video had 1,000,000 plus views. Once again, police behavior in this case was sinister and constitutes evidence tampering. A few hours later, the video was put back online. Castile's mother also stated on CNN that police have been refusing to let her identify her son's body.

Any police officers involved in unlawful behavior in this case, from murder to removing the video from Facebook to unlawfully detaining Reynolds and her daughter, should be brought up on full criminal charges. The whole story is rotten from start to finish. The officer that murdered Castile is unhinged and trigger happy. He should not be a police officer. He should be in prison paying his debt to society for the life he so carelessly took.   

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