People physically unable to perform expected deference cues risk lethal police sanction

Evidence

Police expect citizens to obey orders. 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: This archival claim (book from 1980) eerily forecasts the routine misuse-of-force cases against disabled and autistic people today — worth checking how courts have addressed the ‘failed deference cue’ as an excuse.
• XREF: Connects to the police-deference analysis in World of Strangers: the cost of misreading strangers’ cues falls hardest on those whose bodies cannot comply. — connects to: Police demand visible deference gestures that demonstrate suspect status understood; Legal immunity for subjective fear licenses deadly force in public spaces. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1209; Physical invisibility of another person enables far harsher punishment of them (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Legal immunity for subjective fear licenses deadly force in public spaces. #expands (0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1209
• Physical invisibility of another person enables far harsher punishment of them #complicates (0.80)