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Sign language interpreter delivered gibberish, confusion at Tampa serial killer news conference
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Posted on 12/04/2017 12:32:54 PM PST by Strac6

As authorities in Tampa announced the arrest of a suspected serial killer last week, hearing-impaired people tuning into the news conference got quite a different message from an American Sign Language interpreter.

Instead of getting a rundown from Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan on the timeline of the four shootings and what led up to the arrest of 24-year-old Howell Emanuel Donaldson III, interpreter Derlyn Roberts made signs that were gibberish, according to those who watched in confusion.

"She sat up there and waved her arms like she was singing Jingle Bells," Rachell Settambrino, who is deaf and teaches American Sign Language at the University of South Florida, told the Tampa Bay Times through an interpreter.

Among the things Roberts signed, according to Settambrino, were the following: "Fifty-one hours ago, zero 12 22 (indecipherable) murder three minutes in 14 weeks ago in old (indecipherable) murder four five 55,000 plea 10 arrest murder bush (indecipherable) three age 24."

But Dugan was instead describing how his agency received around 5,000 tips before the 24-year-old's arrest.

Tampa Police Department spokeswoman Janelle McGregor told FOX13 Tampa in a statement officials are conducting an internal review because they didn't request an interpreter for the Nov. 28 news conference, and are trying to figure out "if someone requested that she attend or exactly who sent her to provide services."

The incident is the latest example of an apparently unqualified signer appearing at news conferences. In September, as Hurricane Irma approached Florida and officials announced a mandatory evacuation, an interpreter in nearby Manatee County began signing words like "pizza," ''monster" and "bear," along with other gibberish.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: asl; fakir; interpreter
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Bottom line, an uninvited, unqualified sign language interpreter got her 15 minutes of fame by being on TV... and is probably now famous in her 'community' because put one over on 'The Man.'

It's all obvious when you look at the pictures at the link.

1 posted on 12/04/2017 12:32:54 PM PST by Strac6
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To: Strac6

One comment at the FOX News site said she be signing in Ebonics.


2 posted on 12/04/2017 12:35:03 PM PST by Strac6 ("Mrs. Strac, Pilatus, and Sig Sauer: All the fun things in my life are Swiss!")
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To: Strac6

This has happened before.

I think SNL developed a skit making fun of a previous instance.


3 posted on 12/04/2017 12:36:52 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: Strac6
Tampa Police Department spokeswoman Janelle McGregor told FOX13 Tampa in a statement officials are conducting an internal review because they didn't request an interpreter for the Nov. 28 news conference, and are trying to figure out "if someone requested that she attend or exactly who sent her to provide services."

NAILED IT!

"Hello, officer. I am the sign language interpreter for the Police Chief."

"Go right ahead, maam."

4 posted on 12/04/2017 12:37:25 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being rich or stupid!)
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To: Strac6
They should go back to the old method.


5 posted on 12/04/2017 12:37:45 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Strac6

“The sheriff is near!”


6 posted on 12/04/2017 12:37:47 PM PST by Noumenon ("progressive” describes the progression of a terminal disease.)
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To: Strac6

This something that’s annoyed me for quite a while...and I don’t mean deaf or hearing-impaired persons.

It seems the inclusion of sign interpreters is yet another subtle but unmistakable method of virtue signaling from the Inclusion Police.

It’s one thing to have an interpreter in life or death situations - hurricanes, fires and floods - but closed captioning is already in widespread use at both the point of transmission and receipt, even for real time conversations (eg cable news discussion programs).

Sorry to say it but interpreters are distracting with all the facial histrionics even if such emphasis is part and parcel of ‘inflecting’ sign language.


7 posted on 12/04/2017 12:38:48 PM PST by relictele
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she appears to be an affirmative action hire.... skill set is secondary to the color of your skin.....


8 posted on 12/04/2017 12:39:04 PM PST by martinidon
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To: Strac6

Must be related to the guy in South Africa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KQiQUaJqNQ


9 posted on 12/04/2017 12:39:20 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: Strac6

We’ve had so many of them “outted”, would it be easier to just have someone type the TTY or captions?


10 posted on 12/04/2017 12:40:33 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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Automated real-time transcription is a thing nowadays.
Heck, we could easily have automated real-time sign-language animation.


11 posted on 12/04/2017 12:43:02 PM PST by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: kaehurowing

better... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AjlFxwEQiU


12 posted on 12/04/2017 12:43:46 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Strac6

Its a sign of the times.


13 posted on 12/04/2017 12:46:12 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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That’s my point; why have a real live person doing the ASL, when you can have it done as closed captioning?

*Disclaimer - I am not deaf, but am a bit hard of hearing, and I use the CC on my TV all the time. Turning it off just for sporting events (as the words always tend to cover up the action).


14 posted on 12/04/2017 12:48:20 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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"Fifty-one hours ago, zero 12 22 (indecipherable) murder three minutes in 14 weeks ago in old (indecipherable) murder four five 55,000 plea 10 arrest murder bush (indecipherable) three age 24."

Killed it!

15 posted on 12/04/2017 12:48:30 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: relictele

I feel much the same way.


16 posted on 12/04/2017 12:49:11 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: Strac6
Democrats and other leftists fall for this every time.

Mandela service sign language interpreter failed in 2012 with ‘self-invented’ gestures


17 posted on 12/04/2017 12:52:08 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (United We Stand - Divided We Fall. Remember: Diversity is the opposite of unity.)
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To: Strac6

She’s doing it as she would a party trick, the same way Would speak German or Russian to people who don’t know the language...


18 posted on 12/04/2017 12:53:06 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: kaehurowing

LOL I was wondering why no one has mentioned or show the pix yet!

Come on, people, post clip of South African fakir for us!


19 posted on 12/04/2017 12:54:15 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Strac6
Same woman?


20 posted on 12/04/2017 1:04:14 PM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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