worried for the patient’s safety and was surprised that he himself was shot — he tells that he had his hands up as high as he could get them, and had obeyed an order to lie on the ground. In a segment of the encounter with police that apparently wasn’t captured on video, Kinsey was shot in the leg.
Cell phone video released by Kinsey’s attorney shows part of that exchange.
“Please be still … get down … lay on your stomach,” Kinsey says in the video.
“I’m like this right here, and when he shot me, it was so surprising,” Kinsey says in his interview showing his arms are up. “I’m like, I’m more worried about my patient, worried about his safety, because I’m thinking my hands are up. But when I felt it, it was like a mosquito bite, and I’m like, I still got my hands in the air, and I said, ‘No, I just got shot!’ And I’m saying, ‘Sir, why did you shoot me?’ and his words to me, he said, ‘I don’t know.'”
I don’t know. I don’t know? That’s all he had to say for himself?!
“I’m just so grateful he’s alive and so grateful to tell his story,” said Kinsey’s wife, Joyce.
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