Police shoot a deaf man because he couldn't hear them.

[Frankfooter]

In Oklahoma police shot a deaf man standing on his porch because they thought his walking stick was a metal pipe and he wouldn't put it down when they yelled at him to drop it.
Neighbours yelling at the police that he was deaf didn't stop them either.

Police officers fatally shot Magdiel Sanchez, 35, who is deaf, outside of his home in Oklahoma City, OK, on Tuesday night. When authorities arrived at Sanchez’s home investigating a hit-and-run, they found him on the porch carrying a metal walking stick. With little warning and as neighbors looked on shouting that he couldn’t hear them because he was deaf, one officer fired multiple shots at Sanchez.

The Associated Press reported that police officers Sgt. Chris Barnes and Lt. Matthew Lindsey arrived at Sanchez’s home after a car parked in the driveway matched the description of a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run near the neighborhood. However, Sanchez was not in the car when the accident occurred, his father was driving and had fled the scene of a collision that did not involve another person.

https://splinternews.com/oklahoma-cops-fatally-shoot-deaf-man-as-neighbors-screa-1818601866

 

[Mr. Piggy]

That's American justice for you. Lets just shoot because we're brainless imbeciles that can't think.

 

[DoomFM]

That's a tough one - we should consider devoting more time to training our police.

They seem to mistake pretty much anything for a gun nowadays.