Police arrested a man who didn't comply with their commands. That's because he is deaf.

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/27/brady-mistic-idaho-springs-lawsuit-police-arrest/

When police in Idaho Springs, Colo., saw a vehicle roll through a stop sign on a September evening in 2019, they followed it into a laundromat’s parking lot and turned on their flashing lights.

The driver, Brady Mistic, parked his car and stepped out of the vehicle.

He later said he did not understand what was happening, or even that he was being pulled over — Mistic is deaf and communicates primarily through American Sign Language.

In the confusion, the situation escalated. According to a new lawsuit filed by Mistic, the officers threw him to the ground, stunned him with a Taser and put him in handcuffs. He tried to use some of the words he is able to speak: “No ears.” It seemed to make no difference.

After the encounter, Mistic was charged with resisting arrest and assault on a police officer. He was jailed for four months, during which time he said he continued to struggle to communicate the misunderstanding. The charges were later dropped.

*snip*


No doubt this will be dismissed because of qualified immunity.

[Deuxcents]

1. In jail for four months?

No one to explain he’s deaf? I’d sue.

[MustLoveBeagles]

2. He is

Also from the article:

Two years after the incident, Mistic has filed the lawsuit against the city of Idaho Springs and the two officers involved, alleging excessive force, unlawful arrest, malicious prosecution and discrimination against a person with a disability. The suit also accuses Clear Creek County of not properly accommodating his disability in jail.

“This is a civil rights action seeking justice for the shocking use of unnecessary police force and wrongful incarceration of a deaf man whom the Defendant officers rashly attacked after failing to recognize his disability and misinterpreting his non-threatening attempts to see and communicate as challenges to police authority,” the lawsuit states.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/27/brady-mistic-idaho-springs-lawsuit-police-arrest/

By the way these are the same officers involved in the tazing of 75 year old Michael Clark.

I wonder how many other lives these two chuckleheads have damaged or ruined?

[Piasladic]

5. Infurating, depressing, and scary

I will avoid any police officer if possible. Nasty, armed people. I have a whole lot less respect for the police than that fellow who recounted his story.

[PatSeg]

9. I know, four months is outrageous

[exboyfil]

3. In the Tasing of a 75 year old man from their other case

In addition to the unjustified tasering, the two cops also planted a weapon near the old man after carrying him into the hallway to support their narrative that he came at them with the weapon. That doesn't get mentioned enough. The old man was additionally harmed w/the carry.

She should also have been charged. If the police department had done their job after this incident, then the old man would also not have been harmed.

[MustLoveBeagles]

8. +1

[LanternWaste]

4. Whoever said 'the 99% make the 1% look bad' was on to something.

And I'm quite certain some simpleton in a MAGA cap (metaphorically, if not literally) will justify this incident with the "how are cops supposed to know....?" excuse.

Same as it ever was.

[Piasladic]

6. it's the 99% who make the 1% seem angels

Cannot trust any of them. I never understood the false love the MAGA people have for police. It's like they are their personal attack dogs.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. FTP. This system cannot be reformed.