Hearing Impaired Men Stabbed Over Sign Language

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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. -- Two hearing impaired South Florida men are recovering from stab wounds after an attack police say was prompted when their sign language was mistaken as gang signs.

Court records show that 45-year-old Barbara Lee and 19-year-old Marco Ibanez are facing aggravated battery charges in the Saturday night incident at a Hallandale Beach bar. Both were jailed Monday in lieu of bail and records did not show an attorney for either of them.

Police say the men were using sign language to communicate when Lee allegedly confronted them with complaints they were flashing gang signs. Police say Lee left and returned with Ibanez and a juvenile, resulting in an attack that injured the two hearing impaired men, a bystander and a bar bouncer. None of the wounds were life-threatening.

Hearing Impaired Men Stabbed Over Sign Language - Jacksonville News Story - WJXT Jacksonville
 
WTF? ASL and gang signs look nothing alike. I've seen gang signs flashed around, especially at Tyson by certain people and it looks nothing like ASL.

FYI- it was MS-13 and Bloods.
 
I remembered the article from the newspaper many years ago like around 1970. A gang member thought that the Deaf man was signing his gang signs but yeah it is nothing like that either. The Deaf man was killed by the individual (gang member). It happened in Chicago, Illinois. The gang members don't believe that the gang signs were the same as ASL. They thought that the ASL signs was copied from them. Yeah, right. :roll:


Edit: I am glad that the two Deaf men are alive. They are lucky. Next time it won't be lucky. :ugh:

Does that mean we are not free to communicate in signs in public anymore. That is terrible. :(
 
I don't think I have heard of a hearing being stabbed because he/she talked.
 
I think there have been some cases of people being attacked for unintentionally wearing the wrong color clothing in a gang-controlled neighborhood.

The whole gang culture and it's influence is terrible. See where it leads? Innocent deaf people getting attacked, for one thing. Awful!
 
Yeah. I used to live in Charlotte NC and I shop in mall near me but not very often.

It made me a bit uncomfortable though cuz people would look at me strangely and many word red shirts or blue scarves. I wear mostly black. I didn't know till a near riot happened at that mall that many gang members of the Crips and other gangs (i forget the name of the other gangs) would take the bus to the mall and they were not from my neighborhood and hang out at that mall.

No wonder I got strange looks. I decided ok I guess its not a good idea to shop there.
 
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