I am HOH/deaf person and I can tell you for me it the most difficult thing to explain to an police officer that you are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. I was pulled over and the police officer just scream at me. I could not hear everything he was saying. I was not speeding or any other violation. The best thing that help me not get agitated was I had a paper that my I got from DMV stating I am a Hard of Hearing/deaf individual. After he saw this he just say for me to go. I read his lips. This is makes me sad . I pray for his family and I hope Police Officer are learning ASL or how to deal with people who have accessibilities needs.
cop sees car, decides to stop it..............car don't stopCop chases car.Car stops, officer now excitedchased driver exitsCop is in "the mode"Driver gesticulates ( trying to use signlanguage)cop sees gesticulation and decided dangerhe then killedAftermath--------Cop get veccation ( Administrative leave, most likely paid)Moral to the story: Over worked cops kill at random, get a veccation
Would like to add am getting tired of seeing poor and disabled people run over and feel association for deaf people should seriously get behind this case.
It is stated, a good judgement of a person's future actions are based on a person's past actions with similar events. Even thou the above statement appears to be true. For the press having pulled this man's past and reported on it, in this instants only reflects badly on the press. Nothing of what the press found and reported on. Shows this man would have in anyway presented himself as a threat to this Officers life. I think it only has shown how being deaf got him arrested a couple of times because the Officers which encountered him did not know how to deal with people with disabilities and took the deaf persons actions as a reason to make an arrest on charges which were later dropped. The reality is I believe the victim was at a tremendous disadvantage when it came to this stop. I believe it to be totally reasonable, to believe the deaf victim could have driven the 7 miles with an Officer in pursuit with lights flashing and the victim having not heard or seen the Officer. It was not reported to be a high speed chase. It was reported in the article the Officer chased the victim. However how can you call it a chase if the victim did not have knowledge the Officer was in pursuit? We know Officers, when they have a reason to stop a person will call in the license plate of a suspected vehicle. Were the plates on the vehicle, disability plates? Or was there any type of State Sticker denoting the driver or the Occupant of the vehicle was a disabled person? Officers are able to retrieve information on the vehicle from these plates. IE. Is it a stolen vehicle or not? Do the plates on the vehicle match the vehicle description? Whom is the registered owner of the vehicle? What is the registered address of the owner? When the Officer did this interrogation on the vehicle license plate? Was any information given to the Officer about the registered owner, being a person with a disability of any type? If the answer to a lot of these questions could have been presented to the Officer and possibly answered, this victim most likely still might be alive today. Based on a witness to at least some parts of the incident. It appears the Officer got out of his vehicle and within seconds fired killing the victim. Even thou no video has been released on the events which lead to the death of the deaf victim. Based on what has been presented and is known about the incident and the way it appeared to go down. I think this Officer cannot justify his use of deadly force against this unarmed victim. I think the mindset of this Officer was started when the Officer was in what he believed to be a chase of the victim's vehicle. I think during this 7 miles of following this vehicle. Which from my understanding was following most of the traffic laws, with the acceptation of the Officers accusation the victim was speeding and not stopping for the Officer. The Officers also had no way of knowing if the driver had a justifiable reason to have not stopped for the Officer. Let's not forget speeding is a civil offence and not a criminal charge. I think this Officer in his own mine kept building in his mind, he was going to eventually be making a felony stop and was hyped to the max. This is why it was reported by the witness to this issue the Officer got out of his vehicle and within seconds escalated this situation to a life and death situation. This Officer jumped from less lethal weapons, directly to lethal weapons within seconds. I think this Officer had himself in a state of mind he had no other option. This issue I believe was a flaw in the Officers character in most part. I also think if this Officer could have been informed at the time the Officer ran the victims plates if the Officer was facing a person with a known disability and what type disability it was. Then this brings into question did the Officer know at the time of the stop, the person being stopped may or may not had a disability. If the Officer went into this stop knowing he was facing a deaf person and shot him anyway? This will be a whole different issue. I just wonder if an Officer pulls the information on a disability plate does it or should have this victims disabilities attached to the plate information. Then would it have made any difference? A year ago I saw a video of a disable older gentleman which was pulled over for a simple traffic violation get shot because the Officer thought his cane was a long barreled weapon. The old guy is using it to hold himself up. The point is this Officer was so fixated that what he was seeing was a weapon and not a person’s cane. This is so unbelievable and if this is the case these Officers need to be found diagnosed and removed from being an Officer of the law. So incidents like this don't get others killed, by Officers seeing what they want and not what is actual
The officer was black right? and yet not a single comment on here about race. It hasn't always got to be about race. Yet never have I heard of it being the other way around and race not mentioned.
Let's let cooler heads prevail and wait until all the facts come out before we pass judgment. Just because he was deaf doesn't mean he isn't capable of getting into a violent confrontation with police.
But you can't say anything if you are deaf, cuz you don't even know what you're saying. You don't even know how to form words because no one was able to teach you words except with sign language. Tell me : If you are deaf from the moment you're born, how tf are you going to say words besides saying gibberish which you can't even hear when you are older? This is basic knowledge. How are you this dumb??? Who is the uneducated now?
The audacity to call him a suspect.
They shoot first. That's the problem.
I am HOH/deaf person and I can tell you for me it the most difficult thing to explain to an police officer that you are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. I was pulled over and the police officer just scream at me. I could not hear everything he was saying. I was not speeding or any other violation. The best thing that help me not get agitated was I had a paper that my I got from DMV stating I am a Hard of Hearing/deaf individual. After he saw this he just say for me to go. I read his lips. This is makes me sad . I pray for his family and I hope Police Officer are learning ASL or how to deal with people who have accessibilities needs.
I was friends him and im deaf too
this unarmed man was quite correctly publicly executed by police for the incredibly evil crime of being deaf!
what can you expect when cops are trained to escalate situation
This broke my heart and still does. That's crazy!
cop sees car, decides to stop it..............car don't stopCop chases car.Car stops, officer now excitedchased driver exitsCop is in "the mode"Driver gesticulates ( trying to use signlanguage)cop sees gesticulation and decided dangerhe then killedAftermath--------Cop get veccation ( Administrative leave, most likely paid)Moral to the story: Over worked cops kill at random, get a veccation
They said 5 miles. That's a pretty long time to not notice a police vehicle tailing you with it's lights on.
CBS need ASL translator on site for editor since he said my name is Daniel and want talk about marijuana on national tv! 😂😂😂😂😂
Would like to add am getting tired of seeing poor and disabled people run over and feel association for deaf people should seriously get behind this case.
It is stated, a good judgement of a person's future actions are based on a
person's past actions with similar events.
Even thou the above statement appears to be true. For the press having pulled this
man's past and reported on it, in this instants only reflects badly on the
press. Nothing of what the press found and reported on. Shows this man would
have in anyway presented himself as a threat to this Officers life. I think it
only has shown how being deaf got him arrested a couple of times because the
Officers which encountered him did not know how to deal with people with
disabilities and took the deaf persons actions as a reason to make an arrest on
charges which were later dropped. The reality is I believe the victim was at a
tremendous disadvantage when it came to this stop. I believe it to be totally
reasonable, to believe the deaf victim could have driven the 7 miles with an
Officer in pursuit with lights flashing and the victim having not heard or seen
the Officer. It was not reported to be a high speed chase. It was reported in
the article the Officer chased the victim. However how can you call it a chase
if the victim did not have knowledge the Officer was in pursuit? We know
Officers, when they have a reason to stop a person will call in the license
plate of a suspected vehicle. Were the plates on the vehicle, disability
plates? Or was there any type of State Sticker denoting the driver or the
Occupant of the vehicle was a disabled person? Officers are able to retrieve
information on the vehicle from these plates. IE. Is it a stolen vehicle or
not? Do the plates on the vehicle match the vehicle description? Whom is the registered
owner of the vehicle? What is the registered address of the owner? When the
Officer did this interrogation on the vehicle license plate? Was any
information given to the Officer about the registered owner, being a person
with a disability of any type? If the answer to a lot of these questions could
have been presented to the Officer and possibly answered, this victim most
likely still might be alive today. Based on a witness to at least some parts of
the incident. It appears the Officer got out of his vehicle and within seconds
fired killing the victim. Even thou no video has been released on the events
which lead to the death of the deaf victim. Based on what has been presented
and is known about the incident and the way it appeared to go down. I think
this Officer cannot justify his use of deadly force against this unarmed
victim. I think the mindset of this Officer was started when the Officer was in
what he believed to be a chase of the victim's vehicle. I think during this 7
miles of following this vehicle. Which from my understanding was following most
of the traffic laws, with the acceptation of the Officers accusation the victim
was speeding and not stopping for the Officer. The Officers also had no way of
knowing if the driver had a justifiable reason to have not stopped for the
Officer. Let's not forget speeding is a civil offence and not a criminal
charge. I think this Officer in his own mine kept building in his mind, he was
going to eventually be making a felony stop and was hyped to the max. This is
why it was reported by the witness to this issue the Officer got out of his
vehicle and within seconds escalated this situation to a life and death
situation. This Officer jumped from less lethal weapons, directly to lethal
weapons within seconds. I think this Officer had himself in a state of mind he
had no other option. This issue I believe was a flaw in the Officers character
in most part. I also think if this Officer could have been informed at the time
the Officer ran the victims plates if the Officer was facing a person with a
known disability and what type disability it was. Then this brings into
question did the Officer know at the time of the stop, the person being stopped
may or may not had a disability. If the Officer went into this stop knowing he
was facing a deaf person and shot him anyway? This will be a whole different
issue. I just wonder if an Officer pulls the information on a disability plate
does it or should have this victims disabilities attached to the plate
information. Then would it have made any difference?
A year ago I saw a video of a disable older gentleman which was pulled over for a
simple traffic violation get shot because the Officer thought his cane was a
long barreled weapon. The old guy is using it to hold himself up. The point is
this Officer was so fixated that what he was seeing was a weapon and not a person’s
cane. This is so unbelievable and if this is the case these Officers need to be
found diagnosed and removed from being an Officer of the law. So incidents like
this don't get others killed, by Officers seeing what they want and not what is
actual
The officer was black right? and yet not a single comment on here about race. It hasn't always got to be about race. Yet never have I heard of it being the other way around and race not mentioned.
Because there has not been a hundred years of black cops shooting unarmed white men. Don’t injure your brain trying to understand that.
Any updates?
Lawsuit
Imprisoned for the crimes they committed against me
If Daniel was black and the cop was white.
Let's let cooler heads prevail and wait until all the facts come out before we pass judgment. Just because he was deaf doesn't mean he isn't capable of getting into a violent confrontation with police.
Jimmy Nix a cop has a full weapons belt and some self defense training so why is the gun the only thing these cowards use? Tell me that fact.
He was DEAF not Hearing or Speech Impaired, nor was he mute.....Please educate YOURSELVES....UGH
But you can't say anything if you are deaf, cuz you don't even know what you're saying.
You don't even know how to form words because no one was able to teach you words except with sign language.
Tell me : If you are deaf from the moment you're born, how tf are you going to say words besides saying gibberish which you can't even hear when you are older?
This is basic knowledge. How are you this dumb??? Who is the uneducated now?
Ever heard a deaf person speaking properly before?