I told you yesterday
that the Miami Police would come up with some kind of ex-post-facto
story to justify shooting an unarmed black man in the leg.
“I don’t know,” was always going to be supplanted by some trumped-up tale of
officers trying their best.
And boy, have they. You shouldn’t believe it, as their
actions do not logically follow from the fiction they want you to believe, but
we’ll get to that. First, let’s pretend that the story is true.
Officers arrived on the scene to reports
of a man wielding a gun. What they found was Charles Kinsey trying to care for
an autistic man holding a toy truck. Kinsey got on the ground, put his hands
up, and explained to the officers that there were no weapons. He told the
officers that the autistic man had a toy. According to John Rivera, President
of the Dade County PBA, this happened next:
“It
appeared to the officers that the white male was trying to do harm to Mr.
Kinsey,” Rivera said. “In fearing for Mr. Kinsey’s life, the officer discharged
his firearm trying to save Mr. Kinsey’s life and he missed.”
According to police, the officer was at
least 50 yards away, taking cover behind a police car, when he fired three
shots from an assault rifle.
Taking the police at face value, they
were trying to
shoot an unarmed autistic person holding a toy truck. I say again... they were
trying to kill an
unarmed man, sitting on the ground, whose caretaker was screaming at them that
he was no threat, from 50 yards away.
The officer, who has only been
identified as a 30-year-old Hispanic male, released a statement:
“I took
this job to save lives and help people,” the officer said in a statement
Thursday released by the union. “I did what I had to do in a split second to
accomplish that and hate to hear others paint me as something I’m not.”
What you did, in your split second, is
decide that the ACTUAL WORDS of a compliant black man could not be trusted
versus your obscured view from 50 yards away. You used deadly force without
even being in position to ascertain if deadly force was required, and you did
so over the objection of the man you were allegedly trying to save. If you had
better aim, a man would be gone, sentenced to death by you for the crime of
playing with trucks while autistic.
At best, you recklessly fired your
weapon without making a reasonable assessment of the threat.
And that’s if you are telling the truth.
Which you almost certainly are not.
Look, if you are the type of person who
reflexively believes every line of BS coming from the police, you might as well
stop reading here. I’m not going to convince you. Every police report of every
officer-involved shooting we’ve caught on video has been riddled with lies when compared to the actual video.
Either that has educated you about police protocol, or it hasn’t.
Here, the police fable is not directly
controverted by the video evidence on its face. Hell, the mere fact that Kinsey
is alive, not dead, supports the supposition that the police weren’t shooting
at him. Police seem to only miss black men in the movies.
But all of the police actions captured
on video after the
shooting contradict the notion that they were trying to “save” Kinsey as
opposed to neutralize him. There are two big red flags here:
Flag 1: They handcuffed Kinsey.
Officer Rivera said: “Mr. Kinsey did
everything right.” Then why did you handcuff him? You want me to believe that
your guys accidentally shot a person they were trying to save from harm, and
their immediate response afterwards was to handcuff the victim of their poor
aim? That’s your actual story? DO I LOOK. LIKE. A BITCH?
Whatever idiot split-second reactions
the officers had, the handcuffing of Kinsey shows who they viewed as the
threat, and who they intended to neutralize.
Flag 2: Failure to render aid
Alright, alright, the cops have now shot
a man they were, allegedly, trying to save. They now realize that they were
trying to save that man from a toy truck. And they’ve handcuffed their damsel
who is now bleeding out of his leg onto the street.
COULD THEY GET THE BROTHER A GLASS OF
WATER? Maybe some first aid? Remember, Kinsey can’t dress his own wound, HE’S
IN HANDCUFFS.
The video shows them letting a
handcuffed man bleed onto the street from a gunshot wound they’re saying was
accidentally inflicted. Come on now. That’s not what you do in that situation.
That’s not how any person reacts to that set of facts. That’s not how you
“protect and serve.”
Folks, I hold cops in pretty low regard,
but this story they’re trying to sell makes them sound inhuman. The story they want you to believe
makes them sound worse than I actually believe them to be. What human being:
* Tries to kill a man from 50 yards away
while a guy is trying to tell you the man is autistic.
* Misses and hits an innocent bystander who was a caregiver for the guy he was
trying to kill.
* Realizes all of this, and that he was trying to kill an autistic man who was
holding a toy truck.
*Handcuffs the caregiver he was trying to help.
* Allows the caregiver he accidentally shot to bleed out onto the street
without even trying to staunch the bleeding or make him comfortable until the
paramedics arrive.
That’s just not a credible story. Those
just aren’t the actions of a person.
Either the cops here are monsters, or they are liars. Either way,
something pretty awful went down in Miami.
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