[Strac6]

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.

[Strac6]

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

[ClearCase_guy]

This has happened before.

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

[Tenacious 1]

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."

[LostInBayport]

They should go back to the old method.

[Noumenon]

“The sheriff is near!”

[relictele]

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.

[martinidon]

she appears to be an affirmative action hire.... skill set is secondary to the color of your skin.....

[kaehurowing]

Must be related to the guy in South Africa.

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

[ro_dreaming]

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

[Old Yeller]

Its a sign of the times.

[DannyTN]

"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!

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Democrats and other leftists fall for this every time.

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

[rlmorel]

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...

[rjsimmon]

Same woman?

[editor-surveyor]

.
This has happened many times before.

It happened a two of Obummer’s rallies in 2012.

[tang-soo]

Language is a tricky thing ...

[House Atreides]

It was the standard CLOSE ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK.

[lastchance]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SNcyADMY8k

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Why do they even have these sign language people on anyway. News comes on TV,and TV has close captions.

[Rome2000]

I’m sure there will be someone on the thread momentarily to try to make a compelling case that these “signers” were ever intelligible in the first place.

We have instantaneous voice translation now, no reason for the charade that these people are somehow conveying anything that remotely resembles what the speaker is saying to continue.