![]() I’m not going to tell you again to get back again.” Don’t shoot him.’ The cop turned to me and said, ‘Get back. “I brought the kid right up to me with those binoculars, and I could see he had a toy truck. Thomas Matthews: ‘I’ve been on this corner for some years, and I’ve never seen anything like that in my life where they come up to a man and do him like that.’ Photograph: Eric Barton/The Guardian ![]() Matthews’ friend had a pair of binoculars with him, which Matthews used to zoom in on the scene. Matthews could see Kinsey lying on the street with his hands up, with the man he cared for sitting next to him. Another officer got out of a second car and took an assault rifle out of his trunk and got behind a building on the opposite corner. He had been walking with a friend on North-east 14th Avenueon Monday when a police car sped by him and stopped just a few feet away.Īn officer got out, drew her gun, and hid behind a building. Thomas Matthews, 73, is the longtime caretaker of a convenience store and shopping plaza a block away from the shooting. The video also shows both men on the ground surrounded by officers. That’s all it is.”Ī few seconds later, the camera swerves to show an officer hiding behind a pole with his gun raised, but footage of the actual shooting has not been released. “I am a behavior therapist at the group home. “A toy truck,” Kinsey tells the officers. Kinsey can be heard on the video telling police that the only thing the patient has in his hands is the toy. ![]() The name of the patient has not been released and it is unclear why the two men were in the street. Monday’s shooting in north Miami inspired outrage three days later with the release of the cellphone video footage, which does not show the moment when the officer fired three shots towards Kinsey and his patient. That tension, which was brought to the fore after Missouri police fatally shot the unarmed, black 18-year-old Michael Brown in August 2014, has again been exacerbated by the high-profile police killings of black men earlier this month and the fatal shootings of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge that followed. ![]()
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