Posted on 02/18/2014 5:14:01 PM PST by MeshugeMikey
Jonathan Meister was retrieving some stuff he was storing at an ex-roommate’s home when he looked up to find several members of the Hawthorne Police Department approaching. The South Bay man claims officers didn’t give him a chance to explain what he was doing before placing him in handcuffs, beating him and using a stun gun to shock him into submission. The problem began when police reportedly misunderstood Meister’s attempts to speak in sign language as threatening gestures.
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He is a 25 year old man.
Most of his problems are in the job seeking field.
He recorded a job interview where the interviewer repeatedly asked him “are you being a smartass”
No I am deaf you effing a hole.
Most employers don’t won’t or don’t care enough to take on a liability in this job market.
So I suppose you’re suggesting that there should be no police? If there’s no police then there’s no courts. So justice should just be served out by the people in mobs?
No. Nice try.
I am saying that Police need monumental institutional reform.
The only people who can reform cops, are cops. Departments all over the country communicate with other through trade shows, educational seminars, through the Police Union. They can reform themselves.
If they do not. If they cannot. They must be defunded until they do.
Internal reform is very hard to do. Leaders with conscience and vision must step up.
Or, we the citizens can just quietly take our occasional beating. You cool with that? Or are you only cool with that until the day something bad happens to you or to one of your loved ones? What will it take for you to have sympathy for the powerless?
I am a small government conservative. That view is incompatible for powerful cities wielding powerful unfettered Police. Do you disagree?
When I was growing up, we had a barber that was deaf in our town. my daddy wrote down how he wanted him to cut our hair. I wish there was some advice I could give you, but words fail me. Good luck and God Bless you.
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In the view of some, yes.
Mooning.
from the heart
words didn't fail you
Good luck and God Bless you.
what kind of asinine statement is that LOL
KILL the IBOP
>> Deaf-Americans should understand ...
Because the cops are handicapped in a different way.
That’s a start. Police need to change internal expectations.
Without tax funding.
I seriously doubt that the man’s gestures were misinterpreted. Likely they were not even noticed. The cops wanted to beat someone up so they beat someone up. The fellow is fortunate they did not take a notion to shoot him so they could get some immediate paid vacation.
And shows like COPS seems to encourage this crap.
“Cops need to be more aware”
This is really all you needed to write. I am just hoping that Hawthorne will be the next city to declare bankruptcy when this fellow and his lawyer iare through with them. And, as some others have suggested, the cops, all four of them, need to be terminated, tried and jailed. None of us would get away with something this egregious by just paying a fine. Unfortunately, this, all too frequently, is what “passes” for cops.
And cop apologists
“Cops aren’t good at dealing with deaf people, or even recognizing when they are dealing with a deaf person AND deaf people aren’t good at dealing with police. “
So who gets to be the adult Ramius? I just wonder what tune you would be singing if this young man were your son? There just isn’t anything to “figure out here,” except how long the former officers spend in jail and how many millions the “good people of Hawthore” get to shell out. Five years would be a good start. You can bet that if one of us did this to another human being we’d be bunking with Big Vinnie and be having a hard time sitting down.
Non stop stories about cops all over the US shooting old men/women and pregnant women and kids and dogs and Fast & FURIOUS, and IRS, and Holder, and you can keep your doctor, and videos causing riots, and on and on and on endlessly have got me to the point to where if your an ambidextrous pay check grabbing government employee I AUTOMATICALLY don’t believe an fng thing you say!
And THEN!.......theres the LIAR IN CHIEF!!!!’
excellent ideas!
I cant imagine always being well understood..as a hearing person, and given that as a point of reference cant imagine my chances at clear communication with the hearing were I deaf!
Thank you!
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