Police pointed guns at me twice. Lack of diversity training wasn't the problem
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Police twice pulled guns on me since I, as a deaf man, couldn't hear their commands. More diversity training wouldn't have helped.
In a lawsuit recently filed against the officers and the town, Mistic’s lawyer wrote that as Mistic "exited his car and walked past a dumpster in between his vehicle and the police vehicle, toward the laundromat door, he was blinded by police vehicle lights. He had no idea what was happening, what the police were doing or if the officers' presence had anything to do with him." Mistic began to communicate in American Sign Language since he does not speak or lipread. Strangely, Officers Nicholas Hanning and Elle Summers did not register his signing. They grabbed him by his shirt and threw him to the ground, slamming his head against the concrete.
Despite this, Mistic possessed enough awareness to hold his hands out, palms facing Hanning, to show that he was unarmed. That is when Summers tased him. Mistic was handcuffed, taken to a hospital and then charged with assaulting the officers and resisting arrest. If that wasn’t enough, the town of Idaho Springs locked the man up in its jail for four months.