Officers said they responded with gunfire after the patient was unresponsive to their calls to get down, and loaded what they thought was a gun. They fired three shots, one of them hitting Kinsey in the leg. The gun turned out to be a toy car.

A South Florida unarmed caretaker was shot by police while trying to help his autistic patient. As Charles Kinsey was attempting to calm down his patient, as he was blocking traffic on a street, North Miami Police shot him in his right leg. Kinsey is currently at a Miami hospital, and is expected to recover. […]