you will have no minor amount of surprise in this post displaying how cops deal with the deaf;

Las Vegas, NV — As TFTP reported this week, police officers in the land of the free do not go to extensive training programs where they learn various means of dealing with the citizens they are tasked with serving. Most of their training is devoted to shooting their guns, leaving them vastly under trained when it comes to dealing with those who have a disability or mental illness. As a result of this gross incompetence innocent people suffer based solely on the ignorance of the officers. Andrea Hollingsworth, who is deaf, learned this the hard way.

The North Las Vegas Police Department recently released body camera footage of Hollingsworth’s detainment and subsequent mistreatment from an unnecessary stop last March. Hollingsworth is handcuffed in front of her twin 11-year-old daughters as cops display their incompetence by forcing her children to interpret for their mother. This is in spite of the fact that the NLVPD has a deaf interpreter on staff 24/7 available via ipad or cellphone.

According to the Las Vegas ACLU, the incident was a “clear violation” of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

“There could have been at least attempts to do a different form of communication in the interim while waiting for an interpreter,” Nikki Levy, staff attorney with the ACLU of Nevada to the Las Vegas Review Journal last month after cellphone footage of the incident was posted online.

In the newly released body camera footage, we see the incident from the officers’ perspectives. It is nothing short of infuriating.

“Settle down, stop this,” one officer said to the crying girls. “One of you guys needs to talk some sense into her.”........read and watch more......