Charles Kinsey, the unarmed African-American behavioral therapist who was lying on his back when he was shot by North Miami police, has filed a federal lawsuit against the officer who shot him. Kinsey claims officer Jonathan Aledda violated his civil rights and used excessive force when he shot Kinsey in the leg last month. At the time of the shooting, Kinsey was helping to calm his patient, Arnaldo Rios Soto, a young autistic man who had wandered away from a group home. Video of the shooting shows Kinsey lying on his back with his hands in the air and telling police, “All he has is a toy truck. A toy truck.” This is Kinsey’s lawyer, Hilton Napoleon, speaking on Democracy Now! last week.

Hilton Napoleon: “But the really troublesome part and the part that, you know, we’re really trying to wrap our heads around is that—what happened afterwards. If they really made a mistake and shot my client, there was no reason to handcuff him, and there was definitely no reason to fail to render aid. I mean, they basically left him there bleeding in the street and didn’t render him any aid.”