Brickbat: We'll Beat Some Sense Into You

Angel Luis Simon Martin

Oklahoma prosecutors have dropped charges of resisting arrest against Pearl Pearson Jr. Pearson was beaten by state troopers for not obeying their commands during a traffic stop. Pearson said he tried to tell them he was deaf and could not understand them but they would not listen. The district attorney cleared the troopers of any criminal wrongdoing.

Comments

[The Fusionist]

So the prosecutor's motion said that the court's order for paid interpreters for the defendant made the case "too expensive to prosecute," but the prosecutor stood by its assertions that the defendant is guilty.

The court appointed interpreters for him because he's deaf, but apparently he's still guilty, and if only the prosecutor, as a "steward" of taxpayer money, wasn't so concerned about keeping costs down, he'd be happy to go to trial.

[The Hyperbole]

That's the way it sounds to me.

[The Fusionist]

I guess this way the prosecutor can tell the cops, "I had to drop the case, but I put the blame on the judge and let y'all off the hook."

[The Fusionist]

Wait, check this out:

"Pearson learned sign language during segregation, which means his way of communicating differs from traditional American Sign Language, or ASL."

They used to have a separate but equal sign language for black people?

[The Hyperbole]

I've never heard such a thing.

[The Fusionist]

A link within the link has an article dealing with this, as well as his association with many of the deaf people in Oklahoma, including translators.

[croaker]

Yes, they did. Sign language before the ASL standardization was largely cultural in nature. Even today there are local "dialects" of sign language.

[Rat's instance]

They should have seized his car. I am sure it is guilty of something and doesn't get a court appointed interpreter.

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[straffinrun]

Still more coherent than Hihn's English.

[The Fusionist]

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Hey!
You put the Ooh Mow Mow (Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Back into my smile child
That is why, that is why
You are my shooby dooby doo

[Rat's instance]

Romanes eunt domus

[The Fusionist]

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[Rat's instance]

Nur getr?umt und Willkommen

[Jerryskids]

Quid sum miser tune dicturus?
Quem patronem rogaturus,
Cum vix justus sit securus?

[The Grinch]

Heega haga hoa.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"It is the District Attorney's responsibility to be a good steward of the taxpayer's money," Prater wrote. "Though it is important to prosecute matters to promote public safety and assure that the State of Oklahoma's laws are enforced, the financial burden placed on the State to prosecute a matter is a legitimate consideration; especially as in this case, the matter is a misdemeanor."

Oh, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you.

[croaker]

If you can be beat up for having a diabetic incident, you can be beat up for being deaf.

[Monty Crisco]

This is the sort of everyday, petty tyranny exercised by bureaucrats to make sure they victimize us without consequences that happens ALL THE TIME that SHOULD outrage us, but 99.9% of Americans think it doesn't exist. Like civil asset forfeiture.... what fucking bullshit...

[SomeGuy]

you make me want to go to bennigans with that name :/ Oh they did bring the death by chocolate back!

[straffinrun]

There's something unfunny about this Friday.

[Suthenboy]

Meh. That is a bunch of weasely bullshit from the ADA. The ADA didn't prosecute because of the embarrassment it would cause the OSP and the DA's office. It's a half-assed way of pleading "Please don't sue us".

They are going to be sued.

[straffinrun]

Yep. How often do they roll out the "this would cost too much to prosecute" explanation? Guess we can be happy for this deaf guy a little even if he got stuck with a hefty tab.

[The Grinch]

Yep, I hope this guy ends up being to afford a gold plated hearing aid.

[Trigger Hippie]

So do I. Unfortunately, any money recieved will be from the general budget, not from the police's pension fund, and no behaviour will be corrected.

[Free Society]

Sued isn't good enough. Lawsuits are never a good enough response to ham fisted police.

[AddictionMyth]

If you want to play resisting arrest with each other then fine. But kindly do it on your own dime, thanks.

[Bob Meyer]

Since an interpreter costs $30 to $50 per hour and lawyers typically charge 3 to 10 times that amount, who does this prosecutor think he's fooling by saying that the trial would be too expensive? He knew damn well that he would lose that case and lose big. The cops' reputations would be rightfully destroyed and the state would be subject to damages in the civil trial afterwards.

There is no excused for beating an elderly, deaf man. The cops involved belong in general population.

[Jake Stone]

The cops' reputations would be rightfully destroyed

Pigs' reputations aren't worth a blood-booger phlegm loogie floating in the sewer anyway; what do they have to lose?

[Rufus The Monocled]

Go fuck yourself Prater.

[ScoobaSteve]

No one is so deaf as he who will not listen.

[Free Society]

The district attorney cleared the troopers of any criminal wrongdoing.

Magic costumes for the win!

[ColoradoKook]

Easy defense here:

"The suspect appeared to making a gesture that he had a gun. In order to protect the safety of the public and our fellow officers, 12 of us eliminated the threat."

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So let that be a lesson, motherfucker.
Stop resisting.