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'Listen up,' deaf people: A cop is shouting at you

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The Austin Chronicle's Jordan Smith has a good article this week on problematic interactions between local cops and the deaf community. The central, featured story stems from an incident in 2009, when a "24-year-old found herself in trouble with the Austin Police Department ? booked into jail for resisting arrest, a charge punishable by up to a year in jail ? because she could not hear Officer Steven Willis yelling at her to stop as she walked along a North Austin sidewalk with her girlfriend, Ceci Bermudez." Reports Smith:not once during what became a three-hour encounter with APD did any one of the officers at the scene ? in all there were three, including a supervisor (an EMS crew was also called to check out Valdez, who was scraped and limping after being forced to the ground by Willis) ? attempt to communicate with Valdez in any meaningful way...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 07, 2010 (boomark / email).

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