Hawthorne Cops Describe Epic Battle With Deaf Man Who's Now Suing
Hawthorne police have a very different story about how a confrontation with a deaf man went down slightly more than a year ago.
Jonathan Meister, a 31-year-old ex-college rugby player whom cops described as 6 feet, 3 inches, 205 pounds, struggled with officers who tried to detain him, according to the department. A police report, included below, says cops on the scene knew immediately that Meister was deaf.
... motion to the architect using nonverbal hand signals but, at least according to the report, Meister was combative every step of the way. As soon as officers approached, one officer said, ...
... Meister pointed to his ears, as if to indicate he was deaf. ... We used hand gestures to signal him towards us.
But the suspect grappled with cops, police said.
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