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U.S. NEWS Thursday 21 sepTember 2017

Witnesses yell ‘he can’t hear you’ as cop shoots deaf man

By KEN MILLER He said Sanchez was hold-
Associated Press ing a metal pipe that was
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — approximately two feet
Oklahoma City police of- (0.6 meters) long and that
ficers who opened fire had a leather loop on one
on a man in front of his end for wrapping around
home as he approached one’s wrist. Lindsey called
them holding a metal pipe for backup and Barnes ar-
didn’t hear witnesses yell- rived, at which point San-
ing that he was deaf, a chez left the porch and
department official said began to approach the
Wednesday. officers, Mathews said.
Magdiel Sanchez, 35, Witnesses could hear the
wasn’t obeying the offi- officers giving Sanchez
cers’ commands before commands, but the of-
one shot him with a gun ficers didn’t hear the wit-
and the other with a Taser nesses yelling that San-
on Tuesday night, police chez couldn’t hear them,
Capt. Bo Mathews said at Mathews said. When he
a news conference. He was about 15 feet (4.5
said witnesses were yelling meters) away from the of-
“he can’t hear you” be- ficers, they opened fire —
fore the officers fired, but Lindsey with his Taser and
they didn’t hear them. Barnes with his gun, ap- Oklahoma City Police Capt. Bo Mathews answers a question during a news conference in Okla-
“In those situations, very parently simultaneously, homa City, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. Mathews said that Oklahoma City police officers who
volatile situations, you Mathews said.He said he opened fire on a man who was approaching them holding a metal pipe didn’t hear witnesses
have a weapon out, you didn’t know how many yelling that the man was deaf.
can get what they call tun- shots were fired, but that it (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
nel vision, or you can really was more than one.When Sanchez’s father, who was drove off. It wasn’t a per- os told The Oklahoman on
lock in to just the person asked why Barnes used driving the hit-and-run ve- son that he struck.A man Wednesday that in addi-
that has the weapon that’d a gun instead of a Taser, hicle, confirmed after the who saw Oklahoma City tion to being deaf, San-
be the threat against you,” Mathews said he didn’t shooting that his son was police officers open fire chez was developmentally
Mathews said. “I don’t know. He said it’s possible deaf, Mathews said. He on Sanchez says his neigh- disabled and didn’t speak,
know exactly what the of- Barnes wasn’t equipped said Sanchez wasn’t in bor was developmentally communicating mainly
ficers were thinking at that with a Taser. Neither offi- the vehicle when his fa- disabled and also didn’t through hand movements.
point.”Sanchez, who had cer had a body camera. ther struck something and speak.Neighbor Julio Ray- q
no apparent criminal his-
tory, died at the scene. The Government:
officer who fired the gun,
Sgt. Chris Barnes, has been Prison fits Weiner’s sex crime on teen victim
placed on administrative
leave pending an investi-
gation. By LARRY NEUMEISTER A Manhattan judge is tions with adult women typed words on a lifeless
Mathews said the officers Associated Press scheduled to sentence the before encountering the cellphone screen with a
were investigating a report- NEW YORK (AP) — New York Democrat on teenager online in January faceless stranger. ... Trans-
ed hit-and-run at around Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Monday for transferring ob- 2016. mitting obscenity to a minor
8:15 p.m. Tuesday. He said Weiner is more than a serial scene material to a minor. Prosecutors said his con- to induce her to engage in
a witness told Lt. Matthew digital philanderer — he’s a The government urged duct “suggests a danger- sexually explicit conduct
Lindsey the address where danger to the public who the judge to put Weiner’s ous level of denial and lack by video chat and photo
the vehicle responsible for deserves two years in prison claims of a therapeutic of self-control.” — is far from mere ‘sexting.’
the hit-and-run had gone, for encouraging a 15-year- awakening in a context of “This is not merely a ‘sex- Weiner’s criminal conduct
and that Sanchez was on old girl to engage in online a man who made similar ting’ case,” prosecutors was very serious, and the
the porch when Lindsey ar- sex acts, prosecutors told a claims after embarrassing, wrote. “The defendant did sentence imposed should
rived. judge Wednesday. widely publicized interac- far more than exchange reflect that seriousness.”q