Police Tased, Beat, And Charged Deaf Man With Assault For Simply Trying To Talk To ThemUsing Sign

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Police Tased, Beat, And Charged Deaf Man
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Them Using Sign Language
Author: Stephen D Foster Jr September 14, 2014 6:37 pm

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Police Tased, Beat, And Charged Deaf Man With Assault For Simply Trying To Talk To ThemUsing Sign Language
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Of all people, youd think police officers would know what sign language is when they see it. But these California
cops apparently didnt, and now theyre facing one hell of a lawsuit.
Jonathan Meister is suing after four police officers in Hawthorne, California repeatedly Tased him and beat the hell out
of him because they misinterpreted sign language as an act of aggression.
In February, Meister had been loading boxes of winter clothes and a snowboard that belonged to him at a friends
house when a neighbor mistook him for a robber and called police. When officers Jeffrey Salmon, Jeffrey Tysl, Erica
Bristow, and Mark Hultgren arrived on the scene, they encountered Meister and ordered him to stop. The only problem
is that Meister is deaf and couldnt hear the officers so he couldnt obey their commands.
After grabbing his hand, a startled Meister began communicating the only way he can- by using sign language. As
he desperately tried to make them understand him, the cops decided that Meister was trying to resist and assault them.
So they jumped him, took him to ground, shot him twice with a Taser and punched and kicked the crap of him until
they finally arrested him and charged him with assault.
According to the lawsuit, officers shot Taser darts into Mr. Meister, administered a number of painful electric shocks,
struck him with fists and feet, and forcibly took him to the ground.
This incident occurred in substantial part because the HPD [Hawthorne Police Department] does not
provide its officers the training and resources to serve people who are deaf or hard of hearing, including
those who communicate primarily through American Sign Language.
Meister is seeking damages for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Apparently, if youre deaf, using sign language to communicate with police is a surefire way to ignite an incident of
police brutality now. Lets just hope most police officers arent as moronic as these four are and that they pay dearly for
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Police Tased, Beat, And Charged Deaf Man With Assault For Simply Trying To Talk To ThemUsing Sign Language
their huge error in judgment.


Author: Stephen D Foster Jr
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freedomwriter
September 15,
2014
12:16 pm
This is exactly what the American people have asked for. Willing to sacrifice, not
just some liberty, but every bit of it to FEEL protected. Clamoring for the police
state using some famous words.
If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about, famously said
by nearly every German Jew in the 1930s.
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mmdccbslm
September 14,
2014
9:55 pm
not a surprise. they are not police any more. they are gestapo. they are
brownshirts. they are nazis!
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