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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zombie_Babies" data-source="post: 6263726" data-attributes="member: 6750039">Only if the cops knew he was deaf.  Aside from that, you can't possibly expect every police officer everywhere to know ASL at least well enough to read someone their rights.  It's also incredibly possible that once he was booked someone at the station signed him the pertinent info.  Plus it's not like the cops could use anything he said against him so the whole thing with having a lawyer present is a little less immediately important.Anyhoo, it sounds to me like they were out of line and escalated things for no reason.  Without having been there I can't say for sure.  The point above, though, is that it's really easy to see something like this and then come up with some very unreasonable expectations.</blockquote>