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Deaf Man Prosecuted after Calling Cop a “Pig” in Sign Language

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The Telegraph has reported that a Deaf man has been prosecuted after a police officer understood that the Deaf man had called him a “pig” in sign language.

Extract:
A deaf man has been prosecuted after he called a police officer a “pig” in sign language.

The officer who arrested Linley Hassan, 25, understood the insult, a court heard.

He had been called to McDonalds in Kendal, Cumbria, after reports of a man “causing difficulties”, South Cumbria Magistrates Court was told.




Hassan, 25, of no fixed address, refused to leave the restaurant and became “confrontational” with the police.

Peter Kelly, prosecuting, said: “He was making a sign that the officer, who understood sign language, knew to mean ‘pig’.”

For the full article please visit : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11493808/Deaf-man-prosecuted-after-called-police-officer-a-pig-in-sign-language.html




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