Yep and so they treat them both as suspects until they work out whats going on,

you mean treated them as guilty until proved otherwise.

I'm suspicious of how the video posted shows:

- the worker on the ground, on his back & with hands raised,
- the group home "escapee" sitting next to the worker and having outbursts you expect from some of those with autism, but
- NO VIDEO OF THE SHOOTING!??

How do you post "before" and "after" video, but there's no video of the actual shooting?

Things that make you go "Hmmmm."

In the past, people have posted only the video that tells the side of the story they want to tell.  In this case, I'd think the person doing the video would want the truth made public.   

I'm dumbfounded how you still try to remove any sort of responsibility from the police even after they have admitted to shooting on purpose.

I'm trying to figure out how my call to "wait and find out what really happened," gets translated by you into "try[ing] to remove any sort of responsibility from the police"!   

My Bad. 
Correction... 

   What's even scarier is the officer fired 3 rounds from about 50 ft away at an "large" autistic guy sitting in the middle of the road playing with a toy truck and MISSES HIM ALL THREE TIMES but manages to hit his therapist who is laying down in the road with his hands in the air and was obviously directly behind the target. 

I repeat 
 
Your not even safe when your being protected. 

I disagree.  He should have had it off safety if his sights were on target.  Since he hit the guy on the ground, I assume he was already in that mode.

I was trained to disengage the safety once you begin to acquire the target in your sights.  Safety goes on after your firearm is at the ready or about to be holstered (handgun obviously).

Reason is, if you suddenly need to fire, most people will try pulling the trigger before remembering the safety is on.  That's a delay that could cost a good guy his life -- maybe even you.

  His finger being on the trigger is another thing entirely.

The cop took aim at the autistic man on Monday because he thought Kinsey’s life was in danger, but missed and accidentally struck the caretaker instead, he said.

Charles Kinsey, a therapist helping an autistic man in his care, was shot by North Miami police as he lay on the ground with his hands in the air. Kinsey describes the shooting from his hospital bed.

The North Miami police officer who shot an unarmed black man earlier this week was actually aiming for the autistic man in his care, according to the local police union’s leader.

John Rivera, president of Dade County Police Benevolent Association, said the officers on the scene thought the autistic man’s toy was a gun and that he intended to harm Charles Kinsey, a behavioral therapist at a nearby assisted-living home.

“Many officers thought the white male had a firearm. Only much later when we’re able to Monday-morning quarterback do we find out that it’s a toy,” Rivera said at a press conference Thursday. “Only much later do we find out that the individual was autistic. The officers on the scene did not know that.”

The cop took aim at the autistic man on Monday because he thought Kinsey’s life was in danger, but missed and accidentally struck the caretaker instead, he said.

I don't know what the toy truck looked like so it is hard to say whether the mistake was reasonable. Unfortunately for us armchair judges, we don't have any video of what happened at the time of the shooting. I am thinking maybe the officer should be dismissed from the department but there doesn't seem to be enough evidence of a criminal act.

Hitting the wrong person and then claiming to be aiming for the guy with a toy truck instead is just as egregious.

Why can't people learn to film properly in the wide angle mode!

It is odd that the video cuts out and then cuts in later and from a different angle. Were their multiple videographers?  Did someone do some selective editing?
In the video you cannot see what the boy is holding but of course in person you are going to see a lot more detail.

I agree that 3 rounds is troubling for an accidental shooting. A burst fire weapon would explain how that could have happened. I cannot imagine accidentally firing 3 rounds.

It could be that the officer had it in his mind the truck was a firearm because of the 911 call. For example in a tense situation I say that person has a gun, and even though they don't you still see the object as a gun. In the cop's mind they truly believe they see/saw a gun. It is not always the case that the officer is lying but that their perception was just wrong. People look at police shootings and automatically think that if the officer said something that is later shown to be wrong that the officer lied and was trying to cover something up, but this isn't always the case. (Lying requires knowing that a statement being made is untrue) I think there is a term for the phenomena, let me see if I can find it.

I cannot find a specific term but here is some general information on the power of suggestion. What goes on in the human brain is very complex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suggestibility