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Florida cop guns down therapist aiding autistic patient. Markle celebrates.

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Wordslinger

Wordslinger

"All they need to do is just comply do what the officer says and don't cop an attitude," Markle says, about black men facing police.

But of course, Markle also says that up is down, wet is dry, etc. Read below:


Helping autistic man, black therapist shot by Florida police: media
[Reuters]
July 20, 2016

(Reuters) - A video emerged online on Wednesday showing the moments before an unarmed black Florida man was shot by police as he lay in a street with his hands up next to an autistic patient whom he was trying to help, media reported.

Behavioral therapist Charles Kinsey was hospitalized after he was shot three times in the leg by a North Miami police officer during an incident on Monday, media said.

The incident comes at a time when racial tension is high in the United States. Protests have erupted in major U.S. cities during the past year and a half, as widely viewed videos of police shootings of black men drew attention to long-standing issues of race, policing and lack of accountability for officers.

Kinsey told WSVN-TV in Miami that he was trying to calm an autistic patient who had just ran away from an area group home. Kinsey said he found the patient sitting in a street playing with a toy truck.

A video that accompanied the news station’s online story showed a black man in a T-shirt and shorts lying on his back with his hands up next to a man, who appears to have an object in his hand.

“All he has is a truck. A toy truck. I’m a behavior therapist at a group home,” a man is heard saying in the cell phone video as police officers are seen with their weapons drawn.

The North Miami Police Department said in a statement that officers responded to a call of an armed suspect threatening suicide. Officers arrived at the scene and found an autistic man and an employee with an assist living facility.

At some point during the on-scene negotiation, one of the responding officers fired his weapon, striking the employee, police said.

The moment of the shooting was not captured on the video and it is unclear why the officer fired his weapon.

An officer has been placed under administrative leave. An investigation is ongoing with the assistance of the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, the department said.

(Reporting By Brendan O'Brien; Editing by Nick Macfie)

According to our resident racist-fascist, blacks who get gunned down by police bring it on themselves. Tell it to the family of this unarmed black therapist who was out doing his job.

2seaoat



Our criminal justice system is broken and America is scared to death.

othershoe1030

othershoe1030

In an uncanny coincidence, as I was reading the above post Morning Joe was reading the same report and showing the video. In broad daylight with the person on the ground with his hands up in the air he gets shot. Clearly there is need for more police training and screening of who the department accepts as trainees. Some common sense is required. I'm glad the therapist was only wounded and not killed. Perhaps the gun was discharged accidentally but you could also ask why it was drawn to begin with.

Wordslinger

Wordslinger

Where are you Markle? The victim is black. Why aren't you defending the cop? We're all ears. Tell us about "copping an attitude" and obeying the cop's instructions to keep one safe?

2seaoat



I remember a book in Junior high called something like "black like me" where a white journalist had dye applied and had his hair curled and he reported how he was treated in America. It left a lifetime impression on me. Folks living in the bubble have no idea what the streets are like for a black man. They can be stopped for no reason walking, driving, or walking in a Mall.......they cannot find sanctuary in the bubble simply because of the color of their skin........and to think for ten years I have been lectured about how America has become color blind.....yep.....

Floridatexan

Floridatexan

2seaoat wrote:I remember a book in Junior high called something like "black like me" where a white journalist had dye applied and had his hair curled and he reported how he was treated in America.   It left a lifetime impression on me.  Folks living in the bubble have no idea what the streets are like for a black man.   They can be stopped for no reason walking, driving, or walking in a Mall.......they cannot find sanctuary in the bubble simply because of the color of their skin........and to think for ten years I have been lectured about how America has become color blind.....yep.....



Wordslinger

Wordslinger

C'mon Markle, are you running away in desperation? Nothing but silence from you on this one. C'mon, defend the cops in this shooting! Tell us how it wasn't racism and if only the therapist hadn't "copped" an attitude!!!

2seaoat



I wonder when a letter will be sent asking for the therapist to resign for such a bad attitude. I am sure the local paper will have people writing that he did not lie down flat enough and raise his hands high enough........yep.....life in the bubble does not find one with their hands in the air trying to help a patient getting shot for being white.........

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