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Volunteers Needed for Role Playing with Austin Police...
Please Don't Shoot Us! Friday, September 28, 2012 By Deaf Network Have you ever been interested in giving back to your community? Have you ever thought of being an actress or actor? Now is your chance to do both!! Join us in a role … Continue reading →
Mon, Oct 01 2012

Emergency Workers Get Ahead With Sign Language Course
Please Don't Shoot Us! By Sandish Shoker, Coventry Telegraph Sep 14 2012 Warwicks, England — A Nuneaton police support officer and midwife are leading the pack for raising awareness of sign language in their professions. Liz Udall and Megan Berry have both completed level … Continue reading →
Sat, Sep 22 2012

Denver Agrees to Pay $695,000 to Settle Suit in Deaf...
Please Don't Shoot Us! POSTED: 09/18/2012 12:01:00 AM MDT By Jeremy P. Meyer The Denver Post DENVER, CO — The Denver City Council on Monday agreed to pay $695,000 to settle a lawsuit by the family of a deaf man who died in the … Continue reading →
Wed, Sep 19 2012

Deaf Police to Monitor Security Cameras in Mexico
Please Don't Shoot Us! OAXACA, Mexico — Deaf police officers have been recruited to monitor security cameras in the Mexican city of Oaxaca because of their ‘heightened visual abilities’. There’s a brief and somewhat clunky English-language news article from the local paper that describes … Continue reading →
Mon, Sep 10 2012

Deaf Murder Suspect Wants His Confession Video Tossed
Please Don't Shoot Us! By DOUGLAS MONTERO Posted: 2:22 AM, September 10, 2012 NEW YORK, NY — Justice is blind, but that’s no help if you’re deaf. A suspect in a Bronx murder is trying to get his videotaped confession tossed because he says … Continue reading →
Mon, Sep 10 2012

Handcuffed Deaf Couple Wants Answers
Please Don't Shoot Us! Reported by: Lauren Lea Published: 9/04/12  – 10:20 pm SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS – A deaf couple claims two off-duty Bexar County Sheriff’s deputies handcuffed them and roughed them up as they were shopping inside a west side convenience store. Now … Continue reading →
Wed, Sep 05 2012

Alberta Sheriff Thomas Bounds: Taking Insensitivity to an...
Please Don't Shoot Us! Jan 27, 2012 Calgary, AB, Canada: Thomas Bounds is a sheriff with the Alberta Sheriff’s Service. He requires, at a bare minimum, a severe reprimand and retraining to learn how to act like a human being, since he clearly has … Continue reading →
Sat, Sep 01 2012

Deaf, Black Students Say They Were Manhandled By Police
Please Don't Shoot Us! By MARY MURPHY 8:34 p.m. EDT, August 29, 2012 BELLEVILLE, NJ (PIX11)—A group of deaf men, on summer vacation from a Trenton trade school for the hearing-impaired, said they were stopped and manhandled by cops in Belleville, New Jersey Tuesday. … Continue reading →
Sat, Sep 01 2012

Laramie Man Recovering After Surgeries, Shooting
Please Don't Shoot Us! Mom:  “He is deaf. He would not have heard any commands from the police.” BY AARON LECLAIR • SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 2012 LARAMIE, WY — A local man who was reportedly shot four times for allegedly assaulting a Laramie Police Department … Continue reading →
Wed, Aug 29 2012

Worldwide Support for Deaf Crime Victim Tased, Jailed in...
Please Don't Shoot Us! Nearly 32,000 sign petition, demand justice for Lashonn White Posted: 4:48 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 TACOMA, WA — From Maylasia to Madagascar, tens of thousands of people from around the world are showing their support for Lashonn White, a … Continue reading →
Wed, Aug 29 2012

Deaf and Mute Now a Text Away From Police Help
Please Don't Shoot Us! Sumit Kumar Singh NEW DELHI, INDIA — Aug 28, 2012, DHNS Delhi Police will soon launch a helpline exclusively for the deaf and mute where they can send a brief text message in an emergency and get help. The helpline … Continue reading →
Wed, Aug 29 2012

Different Perspectives
Please Don't Shoot Us! KSWB in San Diego published an article August 17 titled “Deaf woman robbed on street”: [link] Here is how the (undoubtedly hearing) reporter described the scene: “The woman was unable to talk because of her disability, so the first police … Continue reading →
Fri, Aug 24 2012

Police Sign On to New Service
Please Don't Shoot Us! SIGN OF SUCCESS . . . members of Deaf Connections visited Motherwell police office for the launch of the service. Published on Thursday 26 July 2012 10:09 A NEW service aimed at helping those who are deaf or hard of … Continue reading →
Thu, Aug 23 2012

Fort Worth Police Call for Community Volunteers for...
Please Don't Shoot Us! From Star-Telegram, posted Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012 BY DEANNA BOYD FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Police are seeking the help of people from diverse communities to help develop a curriculum to educate officers about the multicultural groups they serve. “We recognize … Continue reading →
Thu, Aug 23 2012

Motherwell Police Office Launches New Translation System...
Please Don't Shoot Us! Jul 25 2012 by Robert Mitchell, Wishaw Press POLICE stations in the area have been fitted with new technology which helps officers and staff communicate effectively with members of the deaf community. Strathclyde Police teamed up with Deaf Connections charity to install … Continue reading →
Fri, Aug 17 2012

NHRC Asks State Gov’t to Pay Compensation to Deaf &...
Please Don't Shoot Us! “The complainant alleged that a constable of Mirzamurad police station of Varanasi district sexually assaulted a deaf and dumb child in the police station.” TNN | Aug 17, 2012, 06.22AM IST VARANASI: The National Human Right Commission (NHRC) has asked … Continue reading →
Fri, Aug 17 2012

Clashes Erupt in Senegal After Youth Dies in Police Custody
Please Don't Shoot Us! By Agence France-Presse Monday, August 13, 2012 17:53 EDT KOLDA, Senegal — Police fired teargas at stone-throwing demonstrators in south-eastern Senegal Monday, injuring one person as protests erupted over the death of a deaf-mute youth in police custody, sources said. … Continue reading →
Fri, Aug 17 2012

Police On-line Surgery for Deaf Residents
Please Don't Shoot Us! Ed. Note:  I was a little shocked to see this headline about police performing surgery on deaf people and baffled as to how they did it online, but upon reading the article, “surgery” is what we New World people call … Continue reading →
Fri, Aug 17 2012

Deaf Man Sues Over Lack of Prison Accommodations
Please Don't Shoot Us! Larry Berke, a deaf man preparing to serve time in prison for mail fraud, is suing the Federal Bureau of Prisons over his assignment to a facility that he claims isn’t equipped to accommodate a deaf prisoner. Berke, represented by … Continue reading →
Fri, Aug 17 2012

More on Tacoma Police Brutality
Please Don't Shoot Us! TASERED IN TACOMA, FOR BEING DEAF Think twice before you call 911 in Tacoma Wa. because the Tacoma Police Department is Taser happy and they might end up Tasering you if you have been the victim of a crime. Don’t … Continue reading →
Thu, Aug 16 2012

Sierra Leone: Deaf protest over incarcerated colleague
Please Don't Shoot Us! FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE — A cross section of people with disabilities yesterday [July 31, 2012] converged at NEC headquarter in a mild protest over the arrest of their colleague Foday Mattia, who spent 6 days in police custody over allegations … Continue reading →
Sun, Aug 12 2012

This Guy Here
Please Don't Shoot Us! KIROTV printed this picture of Tacoma, Wash. police officer Ryan Koskovich, the blithering idiot who assaulted an innocent deaf woman with a Taser and locked her up in jail for three days without access to an interpreter. The victim, Lashonn … Continue reading →
Thu, Aug 09 2012

Sheriff Addresses Services to Deaf People at Jail
Please Don't Shoot Us! By LEONARD HALL Special to The Olathe News Johnson County Sheriff Frank Denning will host tours of the newly renovated Central Booking Facility in downtown Olathe next week for the deaf community, part of his response to call to improve … Continue reading →
Wed, Aug 08 2012

Previously Mentioned in Deafweekly
Please Don't Shoot Us! The following was assembled by searching the Deafweekly website for “police.”  It is not meant to be all-inclusive.  There are surely other similar articles, but this should be enough to give you the idea.  Future articles will be posted as … Continue reading →
Tue, Aug 07 2012

The Police Have Been Informed
Please Don't Shoot Us! This website has an unusual goal — to have nothing to post. After all, when something is posted, it represents yet another incident of deaf people being mistreated by the police. It would be much preferred to have no such … Continue reading →
Tue, Aug 07 2012

Deaf Man Says Officials Gave Him No Help
Please Don't Shoot Us! By CAMERON LANGFORD HOUSTON (CN) – After a neighbor punched a deaf man in the face, Harris County prosecutors and constables refused to provide an interpreter to take his statement, but relied on his attacker’s story to decline to press … Continue reading →
Tue, Aug 07 2012

Police Use Taser on Deaf Crime Victim
Please Don't Shoot Us! By KIRO 7 Investigative Reporter Chris Halsne TACOMA, Wash. — KIRO TV’s investigative unit has discovered Tacoma police used force to arrest and handcuff an innocent deaf woman after she called 911 for their help. Instead of an apology, she … Continue reading →
Tue, Aug 07 2012

Not So Tone Deaf? City Settles Suit Brought by Deaf Resident
Please Don't Shoot Us! By Jordan Smith The Austin Chronicle For the second time in a decade the city of Austin has settled a federal civil rights suit, reaffirming its agreement to provide training for Austin Police officers on how to effectively communicate with … Continue reading →
Tue, Aug 07 2012