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'He Can't Hear You!': Deaf Man Shot Dead by Oklahoma City NAZI Police as Neighbors Scream in Horror
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Time To DISARM COPS!
Sep 21, 2017, 8:51:48 PM9/21/17
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A deaf man carrying a metal pipe was fatally shot by Oklahoma
City police on Tuesday night as neighbors frantically tried to
tell officers that he couldn't hear their commands.
Magdiel Sanchez, 35, was shot and Tasered on a porch on Tuesday
around 8:15 p.m. after he allegedly advanced toward officers
following a hit-and-run involving his father, Police Capt. Bo
Mathews said Wednesday.
The encounter unfolded after witnesses called police to report
the hit-and-run, and said the driver, Sanchez's father, had fled
the scene and driven to the residence. Mathews did not know if
anyone was injured in the crash, but said the car hadn't struck
anyone. Sanchez was not in the car at the time of the hit-and-
run and had no criminal history, officials said.
Upon arriving at the house to investigate the accident, Lt.
Matthew Lindsey saw Sanchez on the porch, holding a 2-foot-long
metal pipe "wrapped in some type of material" with a small
leather loop on the end of it, Mathews said.
A neighbor, Jolie Guebara, later told The Associated Press that
Sanchez often carried the pipe to fend off stray dogs when he
went for walks at night.
The lieutenant perceived the pipe as a weapon and called for
backup. Sgt. Chris Barnes arrived.
"When the other unit arrived, verbal commands were being given
to this individual to drop the weapon and get on the ground,"
Mathews said.
Instead of doing that, Sanchez kept moving toward officers,
Mathews said. Lindsey and Barnes ordered him to "drop the weapon
and get on the ground."
That's when witnesses started yelling "he can't hear you,"
according to Mathews.
"The witnesses were yelling that this person, Mr. Sanchez, was
deaf, and could not hear," he said. "The officers did not know
this as the time."
Mathews did not know whether the officers heard the witnesses'
screams.
He said Lindsey then deployed his Taser and Barnes fired a gun
when Sanchez had got about 15 feet away from them.
Both struck him. Sanchez was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sanchez's father, who was not named, confirmed to police that
his son was deaf.
Barnes is being put on paid administrative leave. It wasn't
known how many shots he fired, but it was "more than one,"
Mathews said, adding that the case was being investigated as a
homicide.
The officers who shot and Tasered Sanchez did not have body
cameras on — the department is in the process of getting them —
and Mathews said he did not know why they didn't respond to
neighbors' warnings that Sanchez was deaf.
"When you have a weapon out, you can get what they call tunnel
vision," he said, "or you can lock into just the person who has
the weapon, the threat against you."
No fucking excuse for that.
Those cops need to die.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/deaf-man-shot-dead-oklahoma-
city-police-neighbors-scream-horror-n803031
City police on Tuesday night as neighbors frantically tried to
tell officers that he couldn't hear their commands.
Magdiel Sanchez, 35, was shot and Tasered on a porch on Tuesday
around 8:15 p.m. after he allegedly advanced toward officers
following a hit-and-run involving his father, Police Capt. Bo
Mathews said Wednesday.
The encounter unfolded after witnesses called police to report
the hit-and-run, and said the driver, Sanchez's father, had fled
the scene and driven to the residence. Mathews did not know if
anyone was injured in the crash, but said the car hadn't struck
anyone. Sanchez was not in the car at the time of the hit-and-
run and had no criminal history, officials said.
Upon arriving at the house to investigate the accident, Lt.
Matthew Lindsey saw Sanchez on the porch, holding a 2-foot-long
metal pipe "wrapped in some type of material" with a small
leather loop on the end of it, Mathews said.
A neighbor, Jolie Guebara, later told The Associated Press that
Sanchez often carried the pipe to fend off stray dogs when he
went for walks at night.
The lieutenant perceived the pipe as a weapon and called for
backup. Sgt. Chris Barnes arrived.
"When the other unit arrived, verbal commands were being given
to this individual to drop the weapon and get on the ground,"
Mathews said.
Instead of doing that, Sanchez kept moving toward officers,
Mathews said. Lindsey and Barnes ordered him to "drop the weapon
and get on the ground."
That's when witnesses started yelling "he can't hear you,"
according to Mathews.
"The witnesses were yelling that this person, Mr. Sanchez, was
deaf, and could not hear," he said. "The officers did not know
this as the time."
Mathews did not know whether the officers heard the witnesses'
screams.
He said Lindsey then deployed his Taser and Barnes fired a gun
when Sanchez had got about 15 feet away from them.
Both struck him. Sanchez was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sanchez's father, who was not named, confirmed to police that
his son was deaf.
Barnes is being put on paid administrative leave. It wasn't
known how many shots he fired, but it was "more than one,"
Mathews said, adding that the case was being investigated as a
homicide.
The officers who shot and Tasered Sanchez did not have body
cameras on — the department is in the process of getting them —
and Mathews said he did not know why they didn't respond to
neighbors' warnings that Sanchez was deaf.
"When you have a weapon out, you can get what they call tunnel
vision," he said, "or you can lock into just the person who has
the weapon, the threat against you."
No fucking excuse for that.
Those cops need to die.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/deaf-man-shot-dead-oklahoma-
city-police-neighbors-scream-horror-n803031
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