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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO [CC] - 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.
TACOMA, WA - She called for police assistance after a guest reportedly attacked her in her own apartment.
Deaf since birth, White used a special video-equipped phone, connected to a TV and a Web camera, to call 911.
A certified American Sign Language interpreter on the other end verbally relayed White’s pleas for help to a Tacoma police dispatcher.
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Instead of an apology, she ended up bloody and in jail for nearly three days without an interpreter before a prosecutor declined to press charges... Read more: http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/crime-law/police-use-taser-deaf-crime-victim/nP9mZ/
Watch Video in ASL: Deaf Woman Helpless Without Interpreter:
http://www.kirotv.com/videos/news/deaf-woman-helpless-without-interpreter/vc9Y9/
Watch Raw Video: 911 Call Through Sign Language Interpreter:
http://www.kirotv.com/videos/news/raw-911-call-through-sign-language-interpreter/vc8rS/
Related Post:
http://deafyouvideo.blogspot.com/2012/08/us-police-brutalize-terrorize-african.html
