Your stance is to bash the cop. My stance is that you should always obey cops and say “yes sir” and “no sir.” Anybody who does not do that (in this case he has a history of it) is flirting with disaster.
You can’t fix stupid.
My stance is not "cop bashing". My stance is that citizens have a right to a trial before their peers before facing execution. The cop has his side arm in order to protect himself from those who seek to do him harm. Sign language has never been know to kill anyone, unless "commence firing, fire at will" was the message signed. I sincerely doubt that the cop was in fear of his life since even he was not so stupid to mistake sign language for a weapon.
Cops have responsibilities that do not include summary execution for infractions of the law. They need to consider all things before the cut somebody down. Perhaps the screening process for cops need to seek those of higher IQ and remaining calm under stress. This smells like the fellow was executed for pissing the cop off.
I am all for law and order, but I will never cede the the misbegotten notion that cops are of a more precious or a higher social standing than the citizens. You have attitudes that are more becoming to a police state. I respect cops and will not give them them cause to turn their weapons on me. I do, however, expect them to respect and cherish the lives of those in their charge.
Please, tell us how someone who can't hear is supposed to obey a cops VERBAL command?
You can’t fix stupid.
And you can't always fix deaf.
The cop was out of order. If the Deaf man was signing, then he CLEARLY did not have anything in his hands with which he could shoot the cop.