Failure to perform expected deference cues can be fatal for people with disabilities

Evidence

The occasional incidents in which deaf or mentally handicapped persons are shot by police who think they are normal but defiant citizens provide tragic testimony to the sanctions delivered to people who fail to behave as expected. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 478

Categorization

• QUESTION: A striking empirical claim of police killing deaf or mentally disabled people who appear defiant — worth finding documented cases or studies that quantify this pattern.
• XREF: connects to: People physically unable to perform expected deference cues risk lethal police sanction — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 478

Broader Connections

• People physically unable to perform expected deference cues risk lethal police sanction #exemplifies (0.95) — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 478