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To: Zon
I can see how a cop who is an authority that expects to be acknowledged could get perturbed when telling a person to their back to turn around and come here and it appears the person is ignoring them and keeps walking.

Here in Detroit, last year, a deaf man was shot and killed by police after not responding to a verbal order to put down a rake...

332 posted on 07/12/2002 1:46:19 PM PDT by Chemist_Geek
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To: Chemist_Geek
Here in Detroit, last year, a deaf man was shot and killed by police after not responding to a verbal order to put down a rake...

And the result was? What was the guy doing with the rake---cleaning his yard? When you leave out important details like that, you can distort the picture and condemn an innocent man, who sometimes happens to be a cop.

333 posted on 07/12/2002 2:12:52 PM PDT by Map Kernow
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