Truthful Lies
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I'm sorry, I usually don't get so livid..but this is INEXCUSABLE!!!
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-te.md.ar.deaf09mar09,0,4917741.story
"...The house has been burglarized at least six times in the past decade, he said, and he believes thieves target him and his mother because they are deaf....When mother and son awoke April 16 to find a window smashed and 79-year-old Evelyn Pyles' purse missing, they called 911 on their TTY phone and hung up. As paramedics watched, Stephen Pyles showed police the shattered window and wrote a note....
...Ashley Eckhardt, a paramedic with the county Fire Department, wrote a different account. Pyles apparently "frustrated from not being able to communicate with the officers, attempted to get an officer's attention by grabbing the officer's arm and placing a piece of paper with a note for the officer on the officer's chest," she wrote. "It was at this time that the officer began wrestling the patient to the ground." Pyles was "guarding himself from the officer," "pointing to his neck" and "motioning for officer to stop," she wrote."
I hope you all are as outraged as I am: The guy had JUST had neck surgery, used a TTY phone to call 911 - that right there would let the 911 operators know they were hearing impaired!!!
So the officer puts this victim on the ground and says he HIT him?!?!?! Un-freaking-believable. Emergency services HAD to know these victims were deaf (even if they HAD NOT used a TTY machine.....6 burglaries in the past 10 years....I'm sure it was noted!!)
I am disgusted at the way Mr. Pyles was treated...really appalled.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-te.md.ar.deaf09mar09,0,4917741.story
"...The house has been burglarized at least six times in the past decade, he said, and he believes thieves target him and his mother because they are deaf....When mother and son awoke April 16 to find a window smashed and 79-year-old Evelyn Pyles' purse missing, they called 911 on their TTY phone and hung up. As paramedics watched, Stephen Pyles showed police the shattered window and wrote a note....
...Ashley Eckhardt, a paramedic with the county Fire Department, wrote a different account. Pyles apparently "frustrated from not being able to communicate with the officers, attempted to get an officer's attention by grabbing the officer's arm and placing a piece of paper with a note for the officer on the officer's chest," she wrote. "It was at this time that the officer began wrestling the patient to the ground." Pyles was "guarding himself from the officer," "pointing to his neck" and "motioning for officer to stop," she wrote."
I hope you all are as outraged as I am: The guy had JUST had neck surgery, used a TTY phone to call 911 - that right there would let the 911 operators know they were hearing impaired!!!
So the officer puts this victim on the ground and says he HIT him?!?!?! Un-freaking-believable. Emergency services HAD to know these victims were deaf (even if they HAD NOT used a TTY machine.....6 burglaries in the past 10 years....I'm sure it was noted!!)
I am disgusted at the way Mr. Pyles was treated...really appalled.