Here is yet another example of the insanity of US "policing":
An autistic man’s therapist was shot and wounded by police in Florida while lying on the street with his hands in the air.
Charles Kinsey, who works with people with disabilities, was trying to get his 27-year-old patient back to a facility from where he wandered, North Miami assistant police chief Neal Cuevas told the Miami Herald.
Cuevas said police – who were responding to reports of a man threatening to shoot himself – ordered Kinsey and the patient, who was sitting in the street playing with a toy truck, to lie on the ground.
Kinsey, who is black, lay down and put his hands up while trying to get his patient to comply. An officer fired three times, striking Kinsey in the leg, Cuevas said. No weapon was found on either Kinsey or his patient.
You can read the rest @
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/21/florida-police-shoot-black-man-lying-down-with-arms-in-air
Everyone involved ought to be prosecuted for this outrage, including whoever made the false "reports of a man threatening to shoot himself". This crap must STOP.
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