Not an exaggeration. I am truly alarmed. A good hearing friend of mine read the post on Bahl two nights ago night and exclaimed to me “why isn’t the media hearing this? this is so wrong!” Other hearing friends checked and they all said the same thing.. that they were very appalled and also surprised it’s not being covered by media.

But we need to respect Bahl’s wishes. Right now, he doesn’t want to talk about this.

Funny thing, I just talked to someone about this deaf and police issues. I said that the stories about deaf and police are SCARY… Then you mentioned it being scary… Guess it is how we are feeling right now, uncertainty, uneasy and SCARY! Oh, I just exaggerate.. Perhaps a little too much of it. Okay, I am thinking what we can do about it. Mulling over deeply…

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I know Tallie very well and she was very sweet woman and very good student at Gallaudet. Sadly that Tallie is now gone and that is NOT right…

Although I considered both friends, my heart goes out to Tallie and inasmuch as I hate to say this, I hope justice is served. Tallie is gone and that is not right.

I feel the same way, too. When I resurfaced in the Deaf community last summer, I noticed this void, especially when I tried to help a hearing woman whose family friend (developmentally challenged deaf guy) got tasered by the cops like five or seven times.. for being deaf and not understanding what’s going on. She was pretty much left alone to try to deal with the police. The local deaf resource center wasn’t any help, according to that woman. The police never got disciplined for tasering an innocent man, I think.

Then I got the same feeling with wright case, tallie’s, bahl’s.. it is a scary feeling.. it seems there isn’t a safety net for deaf people with the judicial system, nor with the deaf people and the police. I do what I can as a blogger and deaf advocate, but it isn’t much. Unfortunately there is no organization specializing in this area, though NAD Legal Center was consulted in one case, so did DeafHope with a letter.

Maybe this is something we all can do now that we are aware of the missing safety net.

I am concerned that we do not do much about the deaf and the justice. We only talk, and write… Then what? I mean, recently we got DBC organization established. Wow, that is so neat about it.. Now, we are very concerned about this sitation with deaf and polices.

NAD cannot do much for the huge, vast USA. Only a few. We could see that a lot of cases or situations are not even investiaged by NAD. What can we do about it??

That is where I am concerned all about deaf and polices… We need the actions, of course… What?? I do not know if I am asking too much, but that is an issue that we need to figure out what we can do about it!!!

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DeafK, I have the pictures. I’ll see if I can get them published in the blog. I think I’ll need someone to help me do that as I don’t have the code to do that.

I know CL bec he was my ex co-workers. Still hard to believe that Tallie was murdered by him. CL is still sitting in jail .. yes he gets high bail but no money or his family decides not to let him out. This is all I heard.