#speedinglivesmatter.
This sounds terrible, but so did the shooting of Philando Castile sounded terrible too, in the initial MSM reports.
The truth came out over the next few weeks, and changed the story quite a lot.
Maybe it was “don’t shoot.” Do you know what “shoot” is in sign language?
1 Guy was speeding
2 Guy didn’t bother to look in his rear view to see the police
3 He didn’t pull over
4 He continued to drive all the way home
5 He exited the vehicle, saw the officers, and flailed his hands around...
How are the officers to know what’s going on? He didn’t.
Is there even one citizen that doesn’t know you don’t do these things?
Well..., yes.
I’m really sorry to read of this. What an unfortunate set of circumstances.
This guy had resisted arrest before. He knew what was up. The cop couldn’t know the guy was deaf. Come charging out of your car with your hands waving after having been pursued while refusing to pull over and bad things are going to happen.
Was the sign in question a single middle finger by chance?
Legal system will figure it out.
Black cop, white perp. Media won’t cover it long.
Seems like a good reason for deaf people to not drive without a hearing passenger. Not being able to hear sirens either doesn’t seem like a good idea.
Wait, what if he was signing, “I’M GONNA ——ING KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU!”
the man was unfit to be out in public driving on a public road
“He was throwing gang signs at us!”
It’s very simple to solve this problem: a universally understood icon on a sticker or on the license plate of the vehicles used by deaf drivers, nationwide.Then the police will always know they have encountered a deaf driver.
Identifying other medical conditions that could cause erratic driving wouldn’t be a bad idea either.
That cop must be quite agile to be be able to simultaneously fire a weapon and use sign language.