Deaf News: Police: Woman found burned on Dale Street in Rochester.
ROCHESTER, NY -- Rochester Police say that a woman was found burned on Dale Street on Sunday, and the incident is being investigated as a suicide attempt.
News10NBC does not normally report on suicides, but many people in the area had questions about what happened on Sunday in broad daylight.
Officers say they were called to a home on Dale Street around, where they found a woman on fire in a field located on a empty lot of the street.
The woman, reportedly somewhere between 40 and 50 years of age, was transported to Strong Memorial Hospital, where she is in guarded condition.
Tony Alonzo Thompson- a neighbor of the woman- was among those who found her. He was walking around the neighborhood when he found her, and immediately called 911.
"I'm trying to tell her, 'ma'am, it's gonna be alright.' I'm telling her it's gonna be alright. It's going to be alright.... but I'm crying because I knew her."
"She's looking right at," he said, "She's Deaf... and she pointed. She's naked, her pants are down to her ankles... and she was smoking."
Holly Mortensen, who lives across from the field where the woman was found, is still in shock over what happened.
"That's a little too close to home, that's my first reaction."
Mortensen was awakened by the police and firefighters that had arrived in the neighborhood, and when she looked outside, she saw one of her neighbors on fire.
"She wasn't moving, she was just laying there at the middle of the field," she recalls, "The EMTs put a respirator on her, or a resuscitator on her."
Fire and police have confirmed the event is now being investigated as a suicide attempt and that there is no danger to the public. Because of the sensitivity of the situation, News10NBC will not be releasing the name of the woman.
Deaf News: Deaf and dying: How a volunteer team brings palliative care comfort through communication in the capital of Canada.
OTTAWA -- Ottawa Citizen: The first experience Monica Elaine Campbell had with palliative care was helping a woman who had lost her ability to speak because of throat cancer.
Campbell, profoundly Deaf since birth, is an excellent lip reader and staff at an Ottawa Hospital asked if she could interpret the dying woman’s words. The woman had been communicating with paper and pen, but now was too weak even to do that.
“I was very hesitant. Then I thought, well, the least I could do is give it a try,” said Campbell, who is able to speak despite never having heard a word herself. “I put my hand on her right arm and said, ‘I’ve never done this before. I will try my best.”
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Campbell leaned close as the woman mouthed her words. Campbell repeated it back and had the woman nod yes if she had understood correctly. She spent five hours with the woman, relaying messages between her and her family and the medical team. She was able to interpret about 85 per cent of what the woman told her.
“I came away a different person,” Campbell said. “I was very touched by the experience.”
The dying woman had not been Deaf, but the experience got Campbell thinking about the communication needs of people like herself: the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. A few years later, Campbell was asked to help a Deaf friend who was about to receive bad news about her cancer diagnosis.
“I didn’t know much about palliative care, but she was struggling with her terminal illness,” Campbell said. “I thought, my goodness, what if that was me? I thought, I should talk to my Deaf friends about death and dying and what our experiences have been.”
Those conversations led Campbell and her friend, sign language interpreter Christine Wilson, to start up the Ottawa Deaf Palliative Care Team, a group of volunteers that provide end-of-life care for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and their families. In 1999, she enrolled in palliative care courses at Algonquin College with two Deaf colleagues (the Deaf use a capital D to refer to the sub-culture of people who communicate with sign language; “Hard of Hearing” are those who have lost some or most of the hearing but can still use some speech, sometimes augmented with sign language; the “Deafened” or “Oral Deaf” have lost some or all of their hearing, but either learned to speak before their deafness or, like Campbell, learned to speak despite it.) Read More at Ottawa Citizen.
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Thursday, November 10, 2016
Elderly Man Rapes 8-Year-Old Deaf Girl
Deaf News: Elderly hearing man, 70, rapes 8-yr-old Deaf girl in Nigeria.
ABEOKUTA, NIGERIA -- Vanguard: Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 70-year-old man, Gabriel Akindele, for allegedly raping an eight-year-old Deaf girl in a toilet.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement, said yesterday that the randy septuagenarian committed the offence at 7, Michael Ayegusi Street, Owode Ijako in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State.
Oyeyemi said the police team found out that the suspect lured the girl to the toilet, where he raped her.
According to Oyeyemi, the suspect was arrested following a complaint from the mother of the girl, who noticed an unusual behaviour from the girl after the incident and used sign language to inquire from her daughter.
He said: “The girl informed her mother of the incident, which prompted the mother to report the matter to police. The DPO of Sango Ota, SP Akinsola Ogunwale, detailed detectives to the scene and the randy old man was subsequently arrested.
“On interrogation, he confessed to committing the crime. It was discovered that he lured the girl to the toilet, where he unlawfully had carnal knowledge of her. The commissioner of police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has directed that the case be transferred to the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, CIID, for proper investigation.”
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ABEOKUTA, NIGERIA -- Vanguard: Men of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 70-year-old man, Gabriel Akindele, for allegedly raping an eight-year-old Deaf girl in a toilet.The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement, said yesterday that the randy septuagenarian committed the offence at 7, Michael Ayegusi Street, Owode Ijako in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State.
Oyeyemi said the police team found out that the suspect lured the girl to the toilet, where he raped her.
According to Oyeyemi, the suspect was arrested following a complaint from the mother of the girl, who noticed an unusual behaviour from the girl after the incident and used sign language to inquire from her daughter.
He said: “The girl informed her mother of the incident, which prompted the mother to report the matter to police. The DPO of Sango Ota, SP Akinsola Ogunwale, detailed detectives to the scene and the randy old man was subsequently arrested.
“On interrogation, he confessed to committing the crime. It was discovered that he lured the girl to the toilet, where he unlawfully had carnal knowledge of her. The commissioner of police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has directed that the case be transferred to the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, CIID, for proper investigation.”
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Saturday, October 15, 2016
Deaf Man Dies After Florida 'Road Rage' Incident
VIDEO [CC] - Deaf News: Man killed in apparent road rage incident in Coral Springs, Florida was legally Deaf, friends say.
CORAL SPRINGS, FL -- ABC News: Detectives say it's unclear whether charges will be filed. A man who was killed Thursday in an apparent road-rage incident in Coral Springs was legally Deaf and used sign language to communicate, the victim's friend told Local 10 News on Friday.
"He had that disability. He was hearing impaired, but nonetheless he was a very productive member of society. He worked at a job and he had a normal life as best as it could be," family friend and chaplain, Ken McLymont, said.
Coral Springs police Sgt. Carla Kmiotek said Paul Peterman, 37, of Margate, was airlifted to a hospital after being involved in an altercation with another driver that ended in the area of Atlantic Boulevard and Riverside Drive in Coral Springs.
He was pronounced dead later in the day.
Kmiotek said the other driver, identified as Joshua Tullis, 37, of Coral Springs, fled the scene, but has since contacted detectives.
Kmiotek said he is cooperating with investigators, and it's unclear whether charges will be filed against him.
Authorities have not said how Peterman died, but said that they are still interviewing witnesses and gathering evidence.
Kmiotek said he was not stabbed, nor shot.
Loved ones said Peterman was an Eagle Scout and was involved in theater. He was also a warehouse manager at a professional lighting company and was engaged to be married.
Anyone who witnessed the altercation is asked to call Coral Springs police, or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.
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UPDATE: AUSTIN, TX -- The Daily Moth is a new ASL radio show, delivers news in video using American Sign Language. The Deaf host, Alex Abenchuchan, covers trending news stories into a Deaf man dies in the Florida 'road rage' incident.
Paul Peterman, a 37-year old Deaf man, was killed last Thursday (October 13) in a road rage incident in southern Florida. The other driver is a 37-year old Joshua Tullis, who is a firefighter with the county sheriff's office. The cause of death has not been determined and no charges have been filed, but the investigation is ongoing. Watch The Raw Cell Phone Video. Story at the Daily Moth's Article.
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CORAL SPRINGS, FL -- ABC News: Detectives say it's unclear whether charges will be filed. A man who was killed Thursday in an apparent road-rage incident in Coral Springs was legally Deaf and used sign language to communicate, the victim's friend told Local 10 News on Friday."He had that disability. He was hearing impaired, but nonetheless he was a very productive member of society. He worked at a job and he had a normal life as best as it could be," family friend and chaplain, Ken McLymont, said.
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Coral Springs police Sgt. Carla Kmiotek said Paul Peterman, 37, of Margate, was airlifted to a hospital after being involved in an altercation with another driver that ended in the area of Atlantic Boulevard and Riverside Drive in Coral Springs.
He was pronounced dead later in the day.
Kmiotek said the other driver, identified as Joshua Tullis, 37, of Coral Springs, fled the scene, but has since contacted detectives.
Kmiotek said he is cooperating with investigators, and it's unclear whether charges will be filed against him.
Authorities have not said how Peterman died, but said that they are still interviewing witnesses and gathering evidence.
Kmiotek said he was not stabbed, nor shot.
Loved ones said Peterman was an Eagle Scout and was involved in theater. He was also a warehouse manager at a professional lighting company and was engaged to be married.
Anyone who witnessed the altercation is asked to call Coral Springs police, or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.
SOURCE
UPDATE: AUSTIN, TX -- The Daily Moth is a new ASL radio show, delivers news in video using American Sign Language. The Deaf host, Alex Abenchuchan, covers trending news stories into a Deaf man dies in the Florida 'road rage' incident.
Paul Peterman, a 37-year old Deaf man, was killed last Thursday (October 13) in a road rage incident in southern Florida. The other driver is a 37-year old Joshua Tullis, who is a firefighter with the county sheriff's office. The cause of death has not been determined and no charges have been filed, but the investigation is ongoing. Watch The Raw Cell Phone Video. Story at the Daily Moth's Article.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Deaf Teacher Arrested For Raping Toddler
Deaf News: Deaf teacher arrested for defiling 6-month-old baby in Nigeria.
DAMATURU, NIGERIA -- Daily Trust: 40-year-old Deaf teacher, Shaaibu Yakubu Abdullahi, has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC), for allegedly defiling 6-month-old baby in Potiskum, Yobe state.
According to the NSCDC Commandant, Muhammad Gidado Fari, the suspect was arrested after a non-governmental organization, National Council of Women Society (NCWS) reported him to the corps.
He said the Deaf teachers allegedly conspired with his 10-year-old student, (name withheld) who took the 6-year-old baby to him from her neighbor’s house, “He defiled the baby,” he said
The commandant said the suspect denied any knowledge of the case, but the 10-year-old student insisted that it was Shaaibu, pointing at him in a group picture of staff and students taken in the school.
He said that the matter was taken to the state’s Ministry of Justice for prosecution as the case needs a professional in sign language to interpret.
The President, National Council of Women Society, (NCWS) Halima Kyari Joda, said the Baby was taken to University of Maiduguri for treatment,
“She was attended by a consultant, she underwent two separate operations. But, we will continue to pursue her case until justice is served” she added.
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DAMATURU, NIGERIA -- Daily Trust: 40-year-old Deaf teacher, Shaaibu Yakubu Abdullahi, has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC), for allegedly defiling 6-month-old baby in Potiskum, Yobe state.According to the NSCDC Commandant, Muhammad Gidado Fari, the suspect was arrested after a non-governmental organization, National Council of Women Society (NCWS) reported him to the corps.
He said the Deaf teachers allegedly conspired with his 10-year-old student, (name withheld) who took the 6-year-old baby to him from her neighbor’s house, “He defiled the baby,” he said
The commandant said the suspect denied any knowledge of the case, but the 10-year-old student insisted that it was Shaaibu, pointing at him in a group picture of staff and students taken in the school.
He said that the matter was taken to the state’s Ministry of Justice for prosecution as the case needs a professional in sign language to interpret.
The President, National Council of Women Society, (NCWS) Halima Kyari Joda, said the Baby was taken to University of Maiduguri for treatment,
“She was attended by a consultant, she underwent two separate operations. But, we will continue to pursue her case until justice is served” she added.
SOURCE
Thursday, August 25, 2016
How Deaf Drivers Can Be Safe From Police
VIDEO: Deaf News - After Deaf man is killed by cop, here's how hearing impaired drivers can be safe in the United States.
NEW YORK CITY -- The recent fatal shooting of a Deaf driver by a police officer in North Carolina has raised questions about safety for hearing impaired motorists.
Jennifer Labriola, the principal of the New York School for the Deaf who drives to work each day, told Inside Edition through a sign language interpreter that if a hearing impaired driver is pulled over, "you tell the police officer you're Deaf and 'I need to write this down.' You point to your ear."
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NEW YORK CITY -- The recent fatal shooting of a Deaf driver by a police officer in North Carolina has raised questions about safety for hearing impaired motorists.
Jennifer Labriola, the principal of the New York School for the Deaf who drives to work each day, told Inside Edition through a sign language interpreter that if a hearing impaired driver is pulled over, "you tell the police officer you're Deaf and 'I need to write this down.' You point to your ear."
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Top 5 Cameras To Protect Drivers From Police Abuse - You never know when a naked guy on PCP is going to jump on the hood of your car. Or If you see the police and start sweating bullets for no reason, check out these dashboard cams for paranoid drivers. Police abuse seems to be a growing concern, and nervous drivers want to make sure they capture the abuse. Who knows how you will use it, since recording some fun footage is a possibility too... Read more at Clapway.
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Monday, August 22, 2016
Deaf Victims of Human Trafficking in Israel
Deaf News: Police crack ring that smuggled Deaf Eastern Europeans into Israel to work as beggars.
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL -- Six human smuggling ringleaders arrested on suspicion of trafficking, forced labor, assault and rape. Police arrested six people on Monday suspected of smuggling Deaf people from Eastern Europe into Israel, forcing them to work as beggars and confiscating their earnings.
The six are suspected of serious offenses, including human trafficking, false imprisonment, forced labor, assault, rape, withholding passports and conspiring to commit a crime.
Police said they were detained in a “swift, professional and covert investigation,” based on information from the Population, Immigration and Borders Authority. The trafficking in Deaf people was first revealed by Haaretz almost two years ago.
Three of the suspects are from Rishon Letzion, with the others from Ashkelon, Netanya and Bat Yam. They are believed to have brought Deaf people from Eastern Europe into Israel on tourist visas, forcing them to work as beggars, often treating them violently and extorting and threatening them.
Police say the ring provided the beggars with housing, took away their passports and confiscated a significant portion of the money they earned. One of the victims is believed to have been sexually assaulted, police said.
The beggars come from relatively poor countries, like Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Estonia, population authority officials said. The ring also used Deaf Israelis and Palestinians. Ten beggars who were being held in an apartment in the Netanya area were brought to a shelter for victims of human trafficking.
The beggars carried notes enabling them to interact with bus drivers, taxi drivers and passersby. They also carried receipt books bearing the international symbol of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing, along with dolls they would give to anyone giving them a donation. The population authority said the beggars worked places like the Azrieli Mall and Tel Aviv Port, the Gold Mall in Rishon Letzion, the Herzliya Marina and the Malha Mall in Jerusalem. During the summer they were even sent to Eilat.
They were forced to work 14-16 hours daily and each would take in an average of between 1,500 shekels ($397) and 2,000 shekels ($529) a day, of which they were allowed to keep only 200 shekels. The rest went to their handlers, ostensibly to pay for their plane tickets and accommodation.
The population authority said that dozens of beggars had been arrested, questioned and deported to their countries of origin in recent years. The administration’s enforcement division noted that it had given real-time information about the trafficking ring to the police and the Justice Ministry.
The authority said it first heard about this type of human trafficking three years ago, when two Deaf people from Eastern Europe were deported after being caught soliciting funds in Be’er Sheva for a fictitious organization. Their arrest spurred an investigation that revealed they were part of a ring of hundreds of beggars.
Yossi Hadad, who is responsible for the authority’s intelligence office in the south of the country, told Haaretz two years ago that the ringleaders would lure their European prey to Israel through dating websites for the Deaf.
SOURCE
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL -- Six human smuggling ringleaders arrested on suspicion of trafficking, forced labor, assault and rape. Police arrested six people on Monday suspected of smuggling Deaf people from Eastern Europe into Israel, forcing them to work as beggars and confiscating their earnings.
The six are suspected of serious offenses, including human trafficking, false imprisonment, forced labor, assault, rape, withholding passports and conspiring to commit a crime.
Police said they were detained in a “swift, professional and covert investigation,” based on information from the Population, Immigration and Borders Authority. The trafficking in Deaf people was first revealed by Haaretz almost two years ago.
Three of the suspects are from Rishon Letzion, with the others from Ashkelon, Netanya and Bat Yam. They are believed to have brought Deaf people from Eastern Europe into Israel on tourist visas, forcing them to work as beggars, often treating them violently and extorting and threatening them.
Police say the ring provided the beggars with housing, took away their passports and confiscated a significant portion of the money they earned. One of the victims is believed to have been sexually assaulted, police said.
The beggars come from relatively poor countries, like Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Estonia, population authority officials said. The ring also used Deaf Israelis and Palestinians. Ten beggars who were being held in an apartment in the Netanya area were brought to a shelter for victims of human trafficking.
The beggars carried notes enabling them to interact with bus drivers, taxi drivers and passersby. They also carried receipt books bearing the international symbol of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing, along with dolls they would give to anyone giving them a donation. The population authority said the beggars worked places like the Azrieli Mall and Tel Aviv Port, the Gold Mall in Rishon Letzion, the Herzliya Marina and the Malha Mall in Jerusalem. During the summer they were even sent to Eilat.
They were forced to work 14-16 hours daily and each would take in an average of between 1,500 shekels ($397) and 2,000 shekels ($529) a day, of which they were allowed to keep only 200 shekels. The rest went to their handlers, ostensibly to pay for their plane tickets and accommodation.
The population authority said that dozens of beggars had been arrested, questioned and deported to their countries of origin in recent years. The administration’s enforcement division noted that it had given real-time information about the trafficking ring to the police and the Justice Ministry.
The authority said it first heard about this type of human trafficking three years ago, when two Deaf people from Eastern Europe were deported after being caught soliciting funds in Be’er Sheva for a fictitious organization. Their arrest spurred an investigation that revealed they were part of a ring of hundreds of beggars.
Yossi Hadad, who is responsible for the authority’s intelligence office in the south of the country, told Haaretz two years ago that the ringleaders would lure their European prey to Israel through dating websites for the Deaf.
SOURCE
Family of Deaf Father Killed by Police Speak Out
VIDEO [CC] - Deaf News: Family members of Deaf father killed by North Carolina trooper speak out to the media in Charlotte.
CHARLOTTE, NC -- WCCB: Donors raised more than $2,600 for the family of the hearing impaired man killed when a state trooper shot him Thursday. Daniel Harris’ family says they will use the money to pay for his cremation.
Troopers say Harris was speeding and failed to pull over on I-485 Thursday night. When he did stop on Seven Oaks Dr., Trooper Jermaine Saunders says Harris advanced. That’s when he says he shot.
His immediate family members are also hearing impaired. His brother, Jay Harris, spoke to WCCB Charlotte through a sign language interpreter. “He was unarmed,” said Jay Harris. “And he is a Deaf individual, and I think that he was just afraid.”
Jay Harris thinks his brother was unaware Trooper Saunders was trying to pull him over for speeding. Trooper Saunders says he shot Harris because he was advancing and not following commands.
“He could not hear their warnings. He could not hear their commands to stop or to stay away from them,” said Jay Harris.
Harris was a father of a four-year-old little boy. Family says his mother is in the hospital with a heart issue since the shooting.
“He was shot, and now we’re left with nothing,” said Jay Harris.
They want the state to document in the DMV system when a driver is Deaf to alert officers when they pull over someone who is hearing impaired.
“What is wrong with us, and what is wrong with a system that allows this to continue to happen? It needs to stop,” said Jay Harris. “Daniel’s death represents that he is a hero in our Deaf community. He will raise awareness on this issue so that we can prevent this from happening to other Deaf people in our community.”
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CHARLOTTE, NC -- WCCB: Donors raised more than $2,600 for the family of the hearing impaired man killed when a state trooper shot him Thursday. Daniel Harris’ family says they will use the money to pay for his cremation.Troopers say Harris was speeding and failed to pull over on I-485 Thursday night. When he did stop on Seven Oaks Dr., Trooper Jermaine Saunders says Harris advanced. That’s when he says he shot.
His immediate family members are also hearing impaired. His brother, Jay Harris, spoke to WCCB Charlotte through a sign language interpreter. “He was unarmed,” said Jay Harris. “And he is a Deaf individual, and I think that he was just afraid.”
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Jay Harris thinks his brother was unaware Trooper Saunders was trying to pull him over for speeding. Trooper Saunders says he shot Harris because he was advancing and not following commands.
“He could not hear their warnings. He could not hear their commands to stop or to stay away from them,” said Jay Harris.
Harris was a father of a four-year-old little boy. Family says his mother is in the hospital with a heart issue since the shooting.
“He was shot, and now we’re left with nothing,” said Jay Harris.
They want the state to document in the DMV system when a driver is Deaf to alert officers when they pull over someone who is hearing impaired.
“What is wrong with us, and what is wrong with a system that allows this to continue to happen? It needs to stop,” said Jay Harris. “Daniel’s death represents that he is a hero in our Deaf community. He will raise awareness on this issue so that we can prevent this from happening to other Deaf people in our community.”
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Friday, August 19, 2016
Deaf Man Killed In Shooting By State Police
VIDEO: Deaf News: Deaf man fatally shot by trooper after chase in Charlotte.
CHARLOTTE, NC -- A man killed by a state trooper in northeast Charlotte after a traffic stop escalated into a chase is Deaf, according to neighbors.
Investigators say Trooper Jermaine Saunders attempted to pull over a Volvo on 485 for speeding. However, they say the driver, Daniel Kevin Harris, did not stop.
The chase continued off 485, to Rocky River Road exit, eventually ending at Seven Oaks Drive with both vehicles damaged.
"I was here in my driveway and I saw the highway patrol car come through and it was smoking really bad," said Mark Barringer. "About 10 seconds later, I heard one gunshot."
Barringer says when he went to take a closer look, he saw Harris in the middle of the street. He died just a few feet from his front door. Several neighbors have put flowers near where Harris took his final breaths.
"It was surreal, you just don't expect to see something like that," said Barringer. "When the gunshot went off, it was scary."
Detectives say Trooper Saunders and Harris got into "an encounter" before he fired his weapon. Neighbors say Harris' car spun out of control and was shot almost immediately after exiting the vehicle.
They say Harris was likely trying to communicate with the trooper using sign language before he was killed.
"They should've deescalated and been trained to realize that this is an entirely different situation, you're pulling someone over who is Deaf, they are handicapped," said Barringer. "To me, what happened is totally unacceptable."
Trooper Saunders has been placed on administrative leave.
The SBI is leading the investigation. They say they will review dash and body cam videos from Highway Patrol and CMPD.
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CHARLOTTE, NC -- A man killed by a state trooper in northeast Charlotte after a traffic stop escalated into a chase is Deaf, according to neighbors.Investigators say Trooper Jermaine Saunders attempted to pull over a Volvo on 485 for speeding. However, they say the driver, Daniel Kevin Harris, did not stop.
The chase continued off 485, to Rocky River Road exit, eventually ending at Seven Oaks Drive with both vehicles damaged.
"I was here in my driveway and I saw the highway patrol car come through and it was smoking really bad," said Mark Barringer. "About 10 seconds later, I heard one gunshot."
Barringer says when he went to take a closer look, he saw Harris in the middle of the street. He died just a few feet from his front door. Several neighbors have put flowers near where Harris took his final breaths.
"It was surreal, you just don't expect to see something like that," said Barringer. "When the gunshot went off, it was scary."
Detectives say Trooper Saunders and Harris got into "an encounter" before he fired his weapon. Neighbors say Harris' car spun out of control and was shot almost immediately after exiting the vehicle.
They say Harris was likely trying to communicate with the trooper using sign language before he was killed.
"They should've deescalated and been trained to realize that this is an entirely different situation, you're pulling someone over who is Deaf, they are handicapped," said Barringer. "To me, what happened is totally unacceptable."
Trooper Saunders has been placed on administrative leave.
The SBI is leading the investigation. They say they will review dash and body cam videos from Highway Patrol and CMPD.
SOURCE
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Thursday, August 4, 2016
Deaf Man Crawls For Help After Car Wreck
Deaf News: Injured Deaf man crawls for help following car accident in eastern Idaho.
DOWNEY, ID -- Idaho State Journal: Sheriff's deputies have located a badly injured Deaf man who became stranded after crashing his car near this southern Bannock County town.
Around 12:20 a.m. Thursday the Bannock County Sheriff's Office confirmed that deputies had found the 50-year-old Downey man on Highway 91 near Red Rock Rock. The man had reportedly crawled over a mile from the scene of the crash to Highway 91 in an attempt to find help.
The Sheriff's Office was not sure where exactly the Deaf man had crashed his car. The man was still being treated at the scene of the crash as of 12:20 a.m. Thursday but he was about to be transported via ambulance to Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello.
Reports indicated the man suffered multiple injuries in the crash and long crawl to Highway 91 but the Sheriff's Office said he's expected to survive.
The incident began to unfold around 11 p.m. Wednesday when the man texted his Mormon bishop stating that he had crashed his car and was badly hurt and stranded. The man did not say in his text where the crash occurred and contact could not be re-established, so the bishop called the Bannock County Sheriff's Office and deputies were dispatched to find the man.
The Sheriff's Office tried to call the man but he did not answer his cell phone. Authorities then attempted to locate the man by pinging a signal off his cell phone.
That effort revealed he was within 10,000 meters of Highway 91 between Downey and Preston not very exact coordinates.
Deputies then began searching all the roads along the Highway 91 corridor in southern Bannock County, eventually finding the man crawling on the highway about six miles southeast of Downey.
The man's identity has not yet been released.
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DOWNEY, ID -- Idaho State Journal: Sheriff's deputies have located a badly injured Deaf man who became stranded after crashing his car near this southern Bannock County town.Around 12:20 a.m. Thursday the Bannock County Sheriff's Office confirmed that deputies had found the 50-year-old Downey man on Highway 91 near Red Rock Rock. The man had reportedly crawled over a mile from the scene of the crash to Highway 91 in an attempt to find help.
The Sheriff's Office was not sure where exactly the Deaf man had crashed his car. The man was still being treated at the scene of the crash as of 12:20 a.m. Thursday but he was about to be transported via ambulance to Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello.
Reports indicated the man suffered multiple injuries in the crash and long crawl to Highway 91 but the Sheriff's Office said he's expected to survive.
The incident began to unfold around 11 p.m. Wednesday when the man texted his Mormon bishop stating that he had crashed his car and was badly hurt and stranded. The man did not say in his text where the crash occurred and contact could not be re-established, so the bishop called the Bannock County Sheriff's Office and deputies were dispatched to find the man.
The Sheriff's Office tried to call the man but he did not answer his cell phone. Authorities then attempted to locate the man by pinging a signal off his cell phone.
That effort revealed he was within 10,000 meters of Highway 91 between Downey and Preston not very exact coordinates.
Deputies then began searching all the roads along the Highway 91 corridor in southern Bannock County, eventually finding the man crawling on the highway about six miles southeast of Downey.
The man's identity has not yet been released.
SOURCE
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Walmart Store Trashed By Mob Of Teenagers
VIDEO: The raw footage of hundreds mob teenagers stormed into and trashed a supermarket Walmart over the weekend in Georgia.
MACON, GA - Led by a teenage boy throwing gang signs, a mob of vandals descended on a Walmart store in Macon, Georgia early Sunday and trashed the business in a reported attempt to “see how much damage they could cause,” police allege.
During the 1:45 AM ransacking of the Walmart in Macon, rioters pulled a patron from an electric wheelchair and dragged him to the floor, according to a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office report.
A Walmart surveillance camera recorded the vandals racing through store aisles.
Investigators say that a “crowd of 40-50 individuals consisting of black males and females” were led into the store by Kharron Green, 17, who can be seen on surveillance video “presenting gang signs in the air with his hands.”
For about a minute, Green & gangs ran through store aisles “destroying merchandise and vandalizing the property,” cops reported. Upon arriving at the trashed Walmart, a deputy noted that one aisle was “destroyed and coated with broken merchandise” and that the “length of the store from front to rear was lined with items which had been shattered, destroyed, turned over and thrown about.”
Green was arrested at the scene. A Walmart employee interviewed by cops said that he spoke with Green in the store’s parking lot and that the teen “stated that this was a planned event, and that they had planned to see how much damage they could cause.”
A Walmart manager estimated the value of damaged merchandise at $2000.
While Green refused to identify any of his fellow marauders, he told cops that the group “had all come from a party.” Charged with criminal street gang activity, inciting to riot, and criminal damage to property, Green is locked up in the county jail in lieu of $11,200 bond. Source
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MACON, GA - Led by a teenage boy throwing gang signs, a mob of vandals descended on a Walmart store in Macon, Georgia early Sunday and trashed the business in a reported attempt to “see how much damage they could cause,” police allege.
During the 1:45 AM ransacking of the Walmart in Macon, rioters pulled a patron from an electric wheelchair and dragged him to the floor, according to a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office report.
A Walmart surveillance camera recorded the vandals racing through store aisles.
Investigators say that a “crowd of 40-50 individuals consisting of black males and females” were led into the store by Kharron Green, 17, who can be seen on surveillance video “presenting gang signs in the air with his hands.”
For about a minute, Green & gangs ran through store aisles “destroying merchandise and vandalizing the property,” cops reported. Upon arriving at the trashed Walmart, a deputy noted that one aisle was “destroyed and coated with broken merchandise” and that the “length of the store from front to rear was lined with items which had been shattered, destroyed, turned over and thrown about.”
Green was arrested at the scene. A Walmart employee interviewed by cops said that he spoke with Green in the store’s parking lot and that the teen “stated that this was a planned event, and that they had planned to see how much damage they could cause.”
A Walmart manager estimated the value of damaged merchandise at $2000.
While Green refused to identify any of his fellow marauders, he told cops that the group “had all come from a party.” Charged with criminal street gang activity, inciting to riot, and criminal damage to property, Green is locked up in the county jail in lieu of $11,200 bond. Source
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Deaf Man Brutally Beaten & Suspects Arrested
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: The raw footage of brutal beating and robbed a Deaf man. Two men taken into custody in Riverside, California.
The following video contains footage of graphic vioence which may be disturbing to some viewers. Viewers discretion is advised.
RIVERSIDE, CA - Riverside Police Department say that a man was beaten at 1 a.m. May 19, 2015, at the coffee shop on Mission Inn Avenue in Riverside, California. Two men attacked and robbed a Deaf customer outside The Coffee Bean Cafe at Mission Inn and Main. The suspects fled the area on foot. A MacBook was stolen from the victim.
Two 22-year-old Riverside men are behind bars on suspicion of beating and robbing a Deaf man of a laptop computer last month in that city at a downtown coffee shop, police say.
Daniel Allen Estremera and Dawone Anthony Finnell both were arrested Tuesday, June 30, for investigation of robbery, conspriacy, and parole violation, police said.
Surveillance video shows the victim being approached by two men who beat him to the ground and escaped with what police described as his MacBook laptop computer.
The device hasn't been recovered, said Milby, who declined to say what specific evidence connects the two suspects to the crime. Source
The following video contains footage of graphic vioence which may be disturbing to some viewers. Viewers discretion is advised.
RIVERSIDE, CA - Riverside Police Department say that a man was beaten at 1 a.m. May 19, 2015, at the coffee shop on Mission Inn Avenue in Riverside, California. Two men attacked and robbed a Deaf customer outside The Coffee Bean Cafe at Mission Inn and Main. The suspects fled the area on foot. A MacBook was stolen from the victim.Two 22-year-old Riverside men are behind bars on suspicion of beating and robbing a Deaf man of a laptop computer last month in that city at a downtown coffee shop, police say.
Daniel Allen Estremera and Dawone Anthony Finnell both were arrested Tuesday, June 30, for investigation of robbery, conspriacy, and parole violation, police said.
Surveillance video shows the victim being approached by two men who beat him to the ground and escaped with what police described as his MacBook laptop computer.
The device hasn't been recovered, said Milby, who declined to say what specific evidence connects the two suspects to the crime. Source
Friday, February 15, 2013
CODA Tried To Kill Deaf Parents In House Fire
VIDEO: Deaf News - South Carolina Sheriff: Gaffney man tried to kill Deaf parents in house fire.
GAFFNEY, SC -- A Gaffney man was arrested after investigators said he tried to kill his Deaf parents in a house fire Monday morning after stealing from them. A Gaffney man who is a Child of a Deaf Adult, often known by the acronym "CODA", is a person who was raised by Deaf parents.
Cherokee County Sheriff Steve Mueller said 22-year-old Fletcher Edward Blanton removed a lighted fire alarm system in the home before setting the Ford Road house ablaze.
Deputies said Blanton reported the fire after he awoke to smoke inside the home, then woke up his parents, who were able to get out of the home safely.
Following their investigation, deputies said Blanton intentionally caused a fire that damaged the home and also stole $4,850 of tools and electronics from his dad the same day as the fire. Blanton was charged with third-degree arson, grand larceny and two counts of attempted murder. SOURCE
Gaffney Man Charged with Arson, Attempted Murder of Parents.
A Gaffney man has been charged with attempted murder after deputies say he set fire to the home he shared with his hearing-impaired parents.
Fletcher Edward Blanton, 22, of 1333 Ford Road has been charged by the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office with grand larceny, third-degree arson and two counts of attempted murder, arrest warrants state.
Sheriff Steve Mueller said firefighters and deputies responded to a fire about 1:30 a.m. Monday. An incident report states that Blanton told investigators that he awoke to find smoke inside the home, got his parents out of the house and called 911.
Firefighters, however, found evidence that the fire had been intentionally set, Mueller said. Investigators found that Blanton had disconnected a special fire alarm with a flashing light designed for the hearing impaired and thrown it outside... Read More.
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GAFFNEY, SC -- A Gaffney man was arrested after investigators said he tried to kill his Deaf parents in a house fire Monday morning after stealing from them. A Gaffney man who is a Child of a Deaf Adult, often known by the acronym "CODA", is a person who was raised by Deaf parents.Cherokee County Sheriff Steve Mueller said 22-year-old Fletcher Edward Blanton removed a lighted fire alarm system in the home before setting the Ford Road house ablaze.
Deputies said Blanton reported the fire after he awoke to smoke inside the home, then woke up his parents, who were able to get out of the home safely.
Following their investigation, deputies said Blanton intentionally caused a fire that damaged the home and also stole $4,850 of tools and electronics from his dad the same day as the fire. Blanton was charged with third-degree arson, grand larceny and two counts of attempted murder. SOURCE
Gaffney Man Charged with Arson, Attempted Murder of Parents.
A Gaffney man has been charged with attempted murder after deputies say he set fire to the home he shared with his hearing-impaired parents.
Fletcher Edward Blanton, 22, of 1333 Ford Road has been charged by the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office with grand larceny, third-degree arson and two counts of attempted murder, arrest warrants state.
Sheriff Steve Mueller said firefighters and deputies responded to a fire about 1:30 a.m. Monday. An incident report states that Blanton told investigators that he awoke to find smoke inside the home, got his parents out of the house and called 911.
Firefighters, however, found evidence that the fire had been intentionally set, Mueller said. Investigators found that Blanton had disconnected a special fire alarm with a flashing light designed for the hearing impaired and thrown it outside... Read More.
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Deaf Boy Sexually Assaulted In Florida
VIDEO: Mom says she caught suspect raping son inside abandoned house.
FORT PIERCE, FLA. - Jose Macias, 63, raped 13-year-old Deaf boy, police say.
A woman tells WPBF 25 News' Angela Rozier she caught a man, later identified as Jose Macias, sexually assaulting her Deaf son inside an abandoned house in Fort Pierce.
A 63-year-old Fort Pierce man was in jail Thursday, accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy. The boy's mother told WPBF 25 News the incident happened Wednesday afternoon inside an abandoned house located at 202 N. 28th St.
She said she saw her son walk off with a man on a bike. By the time she caught up with them, she discovered them inside an abandoned house.
"(I) kind of caught them in the act," said the boy's mom.
According to a police report, the 13-year-old boy identified Jose Macias in a photographic lineup as the person who took him into the vacant house and sexually assaulted him... Read more: http://www.wpbf.com/news/south-florida/treasure-coast/Jose-Macias-63-raped-13-year-old-deaf-boy-police-say/-/8882916/18356212/-/vsiptgz/-/index.html
FORT PIERCE, FLA. - Jose Macias, 63, raped 13-year-old Deaf boy, police say.
A woman tells WPBF 25 News' Angela Rozier she caught a man, later identified as Jose Macias, sexually assaulting her Deaf son inside an abandoned house in Fort Pierce.
A 63-year-old Fort Pierce man was in jail Thursday, accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy. The boy's mother told WPBF 25 News the incident happened Wednesday afternoon inside an abandoned house located at 202 N. 28th St.
She said she saw her son walk off with a man on a bike. By the time she caught up with them, she discovered them inside an abandoned house.
"(I) kind of caught them in the act," said the boy's mom.
According to a police report, the 13-year-old boy identified Jose Macias in a photographic lineup as the person who took him into the vacant house and sexually assaulted him... Read more: http://www.wpbf.com/news/south-florida/treasure-coast/Jose-Macias-63-raped-13-year-old-deaf-boy-police-say/-/8882916/18356212/-/vsiptgz/-/index.html
Friday, January 18, 2013
Deaf Man Stabbed 3 Times Tells His Story
VIDEO : BURLINGTON, N.C. - Terrance Daniels, who can neither speak nor hear, was recently stabbed three times in a case in which a man has been charged. He spoke through an interpreter about the attack.
Police in Burlington say a Deaf man was stabbed several times after his sign language was mistaken for gang signs by another man.
Sgt. Mark Yancey said 45-year-old Terrance Ervin Daniels was using sign language with another Deaf man.
A third person saw them, thought they were flashing gang signs and stabbed Daniels several times with a kitchen knife.
A neighbor saw the victim and called emergency personnel... Read more: http://www.wxii12.com/news/local-news/piedmont/Burlington-man-stabbed-after-sign-language-mistaken-for-gang-signs-police-say/-/10703612/18100348/-/60e0ry/-/index.html
Police in Burlington say a Deaf man was stabbed several times after his sign language was mistaken for gang signs by another man.
Sgt. Mark Yancey said 45-year-old Terrance Ervin Daniels was using sign language with another Deaf man.
A third person saw them, thought they were flashing gang signs and stabbed Daniels several times with a kitchen knife.
A neighbor saw the victim and called emergency personnel... Read more: http://www.wxii12.com/news/local-news/piedmont/Burlington-man-stabbed-after-sign-language-mistaken-for-gang-signs-police-say/-/10703612/18100348/-/60e0ry/-/index.html
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Single Bullet Kills Deaf Man
DURBAN - Deaf couple Navin and Jessica Ragbeer, both aged 37, had known each other since their school days and no one was surprised when they married 12 years ago. They were inseparable, said Premmie Tholsi, Jessica’s mother.
But in the early hours of Thursday their loving marriage came to a tragic end at their Phoenix home when Navin was shot and killed by an intruder.
With blood oozing from his wound and paramedics still to arrive, Jessica prayed fervently for Navin as he lay helpless and dying on their veranda floor, but help came too late. “Why, why him?” asked Jessica.
Tholsi related her grief-stricken daughter’s anguish when the Sunday Tribune called at the family’s home. Jessica is a teacher at the St Martin’s School for the Deaf, physically and mentally challenged in Port Shepstone.
Navin was an administrative worker at the VN Naik School for the Deaf in Newlands. Three intruders surprised the Ragbeers, who live with Tholsi in her modest home, just as Navin was about to drive Jessica to Durban station to catch a bus to work. All the intruders took were a flat-screen TV and Jessica’s handbag with her cellphone and a small amount of cash.
Police spokesman Captain Thulani Zwane confirmed that Navin was pronounced dead at the home in Phoenix after sustaining a single gunshot wound to the chest. Read more: http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/single-bullet-kills-deaf-man-1.1437894#.UMUWx3qS-So SOURCE
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Journalists outside Roppongi police station
麻布警察 写真家
I was in Roppongi last Friday on my way to Rhythm Rivalry, a very memorable percussion event that was happening at the performance/club space Superdeluxe. (Tokyo events on now)
Passing the Azabu Police Station near Roppongi Hills I noticed a group of photographers - clearly press photographers - waiting in front of it (sitting on left of sidewalk in above photo). The policeman on duty (standing at right with stick) was unfazed by it, and the photographers were in no hurry but looked like they were there for the long haul.
First I thought it may be something to do with the assault on the famous kabuki actor, Ebizo Ichikawa, that had happened about a week before in the same area on November 25; but I saw the same thing this week too: a group of photographers waiting outside Kojimachi Police Station - placing that in some doubt. (More about Kojimachi)
I can only presume that either someone newsworthy was in there and they were waiting for him or her to come out, or that they were hanging around in the hope that that would happen.
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I was in Roppongi last Friday on my way to Rhythm Rivalry, a very memorable percussion event that was happening at the performance/club space Superdeluxe. (Tokyo events on now)
Passing the Azabu Police Station near Roppongi Hills I noticed a group of photographers - clearly press photographers - waiting in front of it (sitting on left of sidewalk in above photo). The policeman on duty (standing at right with stick) was unfazed by it, and the photographers were in no hurry but looked like they were there for the long haul.
First I thought it may be something to do with the assault on the famous kabuki actor, Ebizo Ichikawa, that had happened about a week before in the same area on November 25; but I saw the same thing this week too: a group of photographers waiting outside Kojimachi Police Station - placing that in some doubt. (More about Kojimachi)
I can only presume that either someone newsworthy was in there and they were waiting for him or her to come out, or that they were hanging around in the hope that that would happen.
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