LOCAL 10 NEWS STARTS RIGHT
NOW.
>> Eric: RIGHT NOW AT NOON,
CONTROVERSIAL IS GROWING --
CONTROVERSY OVER IN MIAMI
SHOT.
>> Constance: THE SHOOTING IS
SPARKING OUTRAGE.
PROTESTERS SHOWING UP AT THE
NORTH MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT
DEMANDING ANSWERS AND WE HAVE
LIVE TEAM COVERAGE THIS
LOCAL 10 REPORTER LAYRON
LIVINGSTON IS IN NORTH MIAMI
WITH THE LATEST.
>> Eric: LOCAL 10 REPORTER
TODD TONGEN IS IN NORTH MIAMI
TO TELL US ABOUT THE PROTEST.
>> Reporter: THAT'S RIGHT.
THIS MORNING I WAS ABLE TO
STOP THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY
ATTORNEY HERE IN MIAMI.
THEY WERE WALKING INTO POLICE
HQ FOR A MEETING WITH POLICE
AND OTHER CITY OFFICIALS ABOUT
THIS SHOOTING.
SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED, BUT
UNFORTUNATELY THEY WERE
TELLING ME THOSE ANSWERS AT
LEAST FOR NOW WILL HAVE TO
WAIT.
>> Reporter: THE NATION, THE
WORLD HAS SEEN CHARLES KINSEY
LYING IN THE STREET, BOTH
HANDS RAISED.
MOMENTS LATER HE IS SHOT BY
NORTH MIAMI POLICE, ALL WHILE
REPORTEDLY TRYING TO HELP A
MAN WITH AUTISM.
>> THEY WILL BE MUCH BETTER
OFF SAYING SORRY TO MY CLIENT
AND TRYING TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE
FACT THAT SOMETHING WENT
TERRIBLY WRONG.
>> Reporter: KINSEY'S ATTORNEY
JUSTIFICATION FOR THIS
SHOOTING, APPEARING WITH
KINSEY'S BOSS.
>> HE HAS RECEIVED EXTENSIVE
CRISIS INTERVENTION TRAINING.
UNFORTUNATELY, OUR POLICE
DEPARTMENT DOESN'T SEEM TO
>> Reporter: MORE VIDEO NOW
SURFACED RECORDED JUST YARDS
WHERE KINSEY WAS SHOT SHOWING
TWO OFFICERS, GUNS DRAWN, ONE
WITH A RIFLE.
WOMAN WHO RECORDED IT DESCRIBE
SEEING THOSE OFFICERS, THEIR
WEAPONS, AS THEY RESPONDED TO
A MAN SEEN RUNNING BY WITH A
REVOLVER THAT TURNED OUT TO BE
A TOY TRUCK.
HAND.
A TOY TRUCK.
>> Reporter: THE 30-YEAR-OLD
HISPANIC OFFICER NOW ON LEAVE
YEARS.
HE RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING
I TOOK THIS JOB TO SAVE LIVES
AND TO HELP PEOPLE.
I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO IN A
SPLIT SECOND TO ACCOMPLISH
THAT, AND HATE TO HEAR OTHERS
PAINT ME AS SOMETHING I AM NO
NOT.
ASSOCIATION SAYS THE OFFICER
FIRED TO KEEP KINSEY SAFE.
KINSEY'S BOSS DISMISSES THAT
HERO.
>> THE PBA IS NOW TRYING TO
SAY THEY INTENDED TO SHOOT MY
CLIENT, AND THEY ACCIDENTALLY
SHOT MY EMPLOYEE.
TO ME, THAT IS JUST OUTRAGEOU
OUTRAGEOUS.
MR. KINSEY SAVED THE LIFE OF
THAT DISABLED INDIVIDUAL.
NORTH MIAMI.
WE ARE STILL WAITING TO SEE IF
THIS OFFICER'S NAME WILL BE
RELEASED THAT COULD COME AS
SOON AS THIS AFTERNOON AT THIS
NEWS CONFERENCE THAT THE CITY
AFTERNOON.
SOURCES TELL LOCAL 10 THERE
WAS A CONCERN OF RELEASING
THAT OFFICER'S NAME BECAUSE
THERE WERE THREATS BEING MADE
AGAINST HIS LIFE.
IF ANY OFFICERS HAVE BEEN
THIS SHOOTING.
THAT IS INFORMATION WE HOPE TO
BRING YOU AS SOON AS WE HAVE
IT AND A DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
REPRESENTATIVE, WE ARE TOLD,
IS SUPPOSED TO MEET WITH CITY
LEADERS AS EARLY AS THIS
AFTERNOON, SO THE SO MUCH
ABOUT THE INVESTIGATIVE SIDE
OF THIS BEINGLED BY THE
ENFORCEMENT AND THE DEPARTMENT
OF JUSTICE REPRESENTATIVE IS
SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT THE
COMMUNITY RELATIONS SIDE OF
HANDLING THIS.
ON A SIDE NOTE, THERE IS AN
EXHIBIT RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO THE
POLICE HEADQUARTERS INSIDE THE
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ON
POLICE BRUTALITY.
REPORTING LIVE IN NORTH MIAMI,
LAYRON LIVINGSTON, LOCAL 10
NEWS.
MUCH.
HEAD OVER TO LOCAL 10 REPORTER
TODD TONGEN IN NORTH MIAMI.
>> Eric: TODD HAS THE LATEST
ON THE PRO TESTS OVER THIS
CONTROVERSIAL SHOOTING.
WHAT IS HAPPENING, TODD?
>> Reporter: ERIC AND
CONSTANCE, THE COMMUNITY
RELATIONS SIDE OF THIS
SHOOTING CERTAINLY A NIGHTMARE
FOR NORTH MIAMI POLICE.
IT IS QUIET HERE NOW, BUT THAT
WAS NOT THE CASE YESTERDAY.
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON WHEN THEY
HAD THAT PRESS CONFERENCE.
THE CHIEF HAD A PRESS
CONFERENCE, A HANDFUL OF
PROTESTERS SHOWED UP, BUT THEN
THROUGHOUT THE EARLY EVENING
AND INTO THE NIGHT, MORE AND
MORE PROTESTERS BEGAN TO
ARRIVE
EXCESSIVE FORCE.
THEY WERE CHANT BEING RACISM
EVEN THOUGH WE DO NOT KNOW THE
RACE THE POLICE OFFICER THAT
SHOT MR. KINSEY.
THEY -- MORE AND MORE GATHERED
THROUGHOUT THE EVENING AS WEL
THROUGHOUT THE EVENING AS
WELL, AND THEN AT THE ONE
POINT, THEY ACTUALLY STORMED
INSIDE THE NORTH MIAMI POLICE
LOBBY DEMANDING ANSWERS,
WANTING TO TALK TO A COMMANDER
THERE.
THE COMMANDER DID COME OUT AND
TELL THEM -- FINALLY GOT THEM
OUT OF LOBBY AND SAID THEY DO
NOT HAVE A PERMIT TO PROTEST
BUT WAS GOING TO ATHROUGH AS
SOON AS THOSE PROTESTERS CAME
BACK OUTSIDE.
THEN AT ONE POINT, THEY WENT
OVER TO 125th STREET ALONG THE
STREET THERE, A VERY BUSY
STREET IN NORTH MIAMI AND
NIGHT.
WE HEAR THAT THIS EVENING, THE
SAME GROUP OF PROTESTERS ARE
EXPECTED TO GATHER AROUND 5:30
THIS EVENING AT THE 8300 BLOCK
OF BISCAYNE BOULEVARD.
NOT SURE AT THIS POINT OUT
MANY PROTESTERS WILL
PARTICIPATE IN THAT RALLY.
AS LAYRON MENTIONED AROUND
2:00, WE ARE EXPECTED TO HEAR
THE NAME OF THAT OFFICER AND
ALSO GET HIS PERSONNEL JACKET
TO A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE