It is a rare thing when police officers are brought up on charges for shooting civilians, even if it takes nine long months of investigation to come to fruition. Such is the case with Jonathan Aledda, a North Miami police officer who was charged Wednesday with attempted manslaughter and culpable negligence for shooting Charles Kinsey, an unarmed black man who was a caretaker at a home for people with mental disabilities. You may remember this case from July 2016 when Kinsey was attempting to calm Arnaldo Soto, an autistic resident from the home at which he worked. Soto had wandered into the street and Kinsey was attempting to help him back inside.
The autistic man sat down in the street and was playing with a silver toy truck. Passersby thought that may have been a gun and called police, according to the [arrest affidavit].As armed officers made their way into closer position, Kinsey lay down on the ground with his hands in the air, yelling at police that there was no threat, according to cellphone footage of the incident."All he has is a toy truck in his hands. A toy truck," Kinsey says in the video. "I am a behavior tech at a group home."
After he laid down and identified himself, it appears that officers were able to confirm that neither Kinsey nor Soto were a threat. From the arrest affidavit, it appears that Aledda was not the closest officer to the scene and was 152 feet away when he shot Kinsey.
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