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ByJesseJ.Holland TheAssociatedPress Charles Kinsey held his hands in the air and shouted to police that the autistic man sitting on the street next to him wasn't dangerous. A few seconds later, he felt bullets rip into his leg. The therapist, who is black and works with peo- ple with disabilities, was rounding up a patient who had wandered away from a facility when he was or- dered by police officers to lie on the ground. Kin- sey imagined that "as long as I've got my hands up, they're not going to shoot me. This is what I'm think- ing." "Wow, was I wrong," he told a television station. The shooting in Flor- ida earlier this week illus- trates the longstanding fear among black men that al- most any encounter with police can go awry with potentially deadly results, even when a person follows every law enforcement com- mand. Police are known to pull their triggers "no matter how you follow their direc- tions," emphasized Isaial Murray, a black 28-year- old construction worker in Detroit. Some black men question why police seem to avoid using deadly force on dan- gerous white suspects, like Dylan Roof, who is charged with killing nine African- Americans last year in a church in South Carolina, but are quick to point a gun at blacks. "I see incidents with a white person with a gun on their hip and ... they don't pull their gun. They pull their Taser to calm them down," said Travis Haynes, 35, of Orlando, who is black. "But when it comes to a black man, the first thing they do is draw their gun." On Monday in Flor- ida, officers ordered Kin- sey and the patient, who was sitting in the street playing with a toy truck, to lie on the ground. Kin- sey got down on the pave- ment and put his hands up while trying to get the pa- tient to comply, North Mi- ami Assistant Police Chief Neal Cuevas told The Mi- ami Herald. An officer then fired three times, striking Kin- sey in the leg, Cuevas said. Police were responding to reports of a man with a gun threatening to kill him- self, and the officers arrived "with that threat in mind," the chief said. No gun was recovered. The patient was not harmed. Police have not released the name or race of the officer who fired but said he's been placed on ad- ministrative leave, which is standard procedure. The latest shooting comes after two black men were killed at the hands of police in Louisiana and Minnesota. Alton Sterling died during a scuffle with two white Baton Rouge police officers at a conve- nience store where he was selling CDs, as he had done for years. The officers were responding to a call of a man threatening someone with a gun. They have said they found a gun in Ster- ling's pocket. That shooting, captured on cellphone video, pro- voked widespread protests about police treatment of the black community. It was followed days later by the death of Phi- lando Castile, who was le- gally registered to carry a gun and told an officer that he had a weapon during a July 6 traffic stop in a St. Paul suburb. Then the of- ficer fatally shot him. Mo- ments later, in a live Face- book stream, his girlfriend said the officer had asked for Castile's license and shot him when he moved to re- trieve it. "There is like an aggres- sion toward all black males, whether it's young or old," said Guy Kirton, a black 21-year-old living on Long Island, New York. Police need to acknowl- edge this feeling among Af- rican-American men and work to find a solution, said Chuck Drago, a white for- mer police chief in Oviedo, Florida. "Perception is reality. If people believe that, then we as the police have to do something to prove that wrong," Drago said. "There's a lot of ways to do that, but we can't ignore it. We can't say: 'It's not true. You're mistaken.'" SHOOTINGS Why black men fear that any police encounter could go awry By Vivian Salama The Associated Press WASHINGTON Republican nominee Donald Trump hinted the U.S. may revisit NATO's longstanding pol- icy of defending its allies against possible Russian ag- gression if he becomes pres- ident, saying that some al- lies aren't holding up their end of the bargain. TrumptoldTheNewYork Times that he would decide whether to protect the Bal- tic republics against any incursion by Russia based on whether those countries "have fulfilled their obliga- tions to us." His remarks came ahead of his speech to formally ac- cept the Republican nomi- nation for president late Thursday, and dominated the day's convention-re- lated chatter, even though they are in in line with his views questioning the United States' global role. In 2014, the 28-member alliance created a rapid- reaction force to pro- tect the most vulnerable NATO members against a confrontation with Rus- sia. Last week, President Barack Obama pledged un- wavering commitment to defending Europe, adding that "in good times and in bad, Europe can count on the United States." White House spokesman Josh Earnest reaffirmed the United States' commitment to its trans-Atlantic part- ners. "The cornerstone of that alliance is the pledge that all of the allies have made to mutual self-defense," Earnest said. "The U.S. commitment to that pledge is iron-clad," Earnest said. NATO, or the North At- lantic Treaty Organiza- tion, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies cre- ated after World War II to strengthen international cooperation as a counter- balance to the rise of the Soviet Union. NATO Secretary-Gen- eral Jens Stoltenbert said he wouldn't wade into the U.S. presidential campaign, but he noted that "solidarity among allies is a key value for NATO." "This is good for Euro- pean security and good for U.S. security. We defend one another. We have seen this in Afghanistan, where tens of thousands of European, Canadian and partner na- tion troops have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with U.S. soldiers." Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign was quick to pounce on Trump's state- ments. "The president is sup- posed to be the leader of the free world. Donald Trump apparently doesn't even believe in the free world," Clinton senior policy ad- viser Jake Sullivan said in a statement shortly after the interview was published. Trump's running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, was on the defensive early Thursday, telling Fox News he is confident the Republi- cannomineewouldstandby America's NATO allies. But he insisted those countries "must pay their fair share." Pence added a Trump ad- ministration would tell U.S. allies "the time has come for them and for their citi- zens to begin to carry the fi- nancial costs of these inter- national obligations." Trump has publicly wel- comed praise from Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling MSNBC in Decem- ber that, "when people call you brilliant, that's always good, especially when the person heads up Russia." 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