Police shoot autistic man’s unarmed black carer who had hands in air

A video emerged online showing the moments before an unarmed black Florida man was shot by police as he lay in a street with his hands up next to an autistic patient whom he was trying to help.

Behavioural therapist Charles Kinsey was hospitalised after he was shot three times in the leg by a North Miami police officer during an incident on Monday, media said.

Kinsey told WSVN-TV in Miami that he was trying to calm an autistic patient who had just ran away from an area group home. Kinsey said he found the patient sitting in a street playing with a toy truck.