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TIL a deaf man was moving some boxes at a friend’s house when Hawthorne, CA police arrived suspecting he was robbing the home. When the man tried to use American Sign language to tell the cops he was deaf, he was tased and beaten unconscious, then charged with assault (charges were later dropped)

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