{"id":12691,"date":"2010-12-24T15:56:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T20:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=12691"},"modified":"2010-12-27T17:35:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T22:35:40","slug":"apd-detective-disputes-chronicle-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2010\/12\/24\/apd-detective-disputes-chronicle-story\/","title":{"rendered":"APD Detective Disputes ‘Chronicle’ Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

APD Detective Disputes ‘Chronicle’ Story<\/strong><\/p>\n

BY JORDAN SMITH AND MICHAEL KING<\/p>\n

According to Austin Police Department Detective Daniel Arizpe, the
\nChronicle’s description of the June 30, 2000, incident at the Catfish
\nParlour \u2013 in our Dec. 3 story “Tone Deaf,” about communication problems
\nbetween APD and deaf residents \u2013 was just plain wrong. “I did absolutely
\nnothing wrong,” he told us last week during a meeting at APD headquarters.<\/p>\n

The brief passage in the story that concerns Arizpe’s actions that day reads
\nas follows: “When APD Officer Daniel Arizpe arrived, he did not provide an
\ninterpreter even after Joan repeatedly asked for one; instead, Arizpe used
\nonly his voice to communicate that he intended to arrest Richard. Richard
\ndidn’t know what was happening \u2013 or even that Arizpe was a cop \u2013 and when
\nArizpe tried to arrest him, he bit the officer’s arm.” (Arizpe is not
\notherwise mentioned.)<\/p>\n

Shortly after the story ran, we got a call from APD’s public information
\noffice telling us that Arizpe felt he was incorrectly and unfairly portrayed
\nand wanted a meeting with us.<\/p>\n

At that Dec. 16 meeting, Arizpe said that we erred in reporting that he
\nfailed to call for an interpreter to communicate with Richard Bell (who is
\ndeaf and blind) and his wife, Joan (who is deaf), after the couple allegedly
\ngot into an altercation with the restaurant manager, an incident that
\nstarted after the couple had requested a braille menu. Arizpe said that he
\ndid in fact call for an interpreter \u2013 three times, he says \u2013 before
\narresting Richard and taking him to jail. Arizpe doesn’t recall how long he
\nwaited for an interpreter to arrive at the scene but estimates it was about
\n30 minutes. Arizpe said he also tried communicating with Richard by writing
\nnotes; he said Richard had already been trying to communicate via writing
\nand that he believed Richard could read the notes that he wrote but refused
\nto do so. Further, Arizpe said that an interpreter did take over once the
\ncouple was at the jail.<\/p>\n

Arizpe said that no charges were filed because he was “trying to be nice,”
\neven though Richard had bitten him on the arm. The manager at the Catfish
\nParlour, who told Arizpe that Richard had struck him across the head with
\nthe white cane he uses as a mobility tool, apparently did not pursue assault
\ncharges either. (In fact, no charges of any kind were ever filed.)<\/p>\n

Our summary of the Catfish Parlour episode was based on the court documents
\nof record concerning the federal civil rights lawsuit that was filed on
\nbehalf of the Bells, under the terms of the Americans With Disability Act,
\nby the Texas Civil Rights Project. As we reported, the lawsuit resulted in a
\nsettlement, under which the city agreed to ensure that every APD officer
\nreceive at least four hours of training on dealing with individuals with
\ndisabilities, including the deaf and blind.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.austinchronicle.com\/gyrobase\/Issue\/story?oid=1129006<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

APD Detective Disputes ‘Chronicle’ Story BY JORDAN SMITH AND MICHAEL KING According to Austin Police Department Detective Daniel Arizpe, the Chronicle’s description of the June 30, 2000, incident at the Catfish Parlour \u2013 in our Dec. 3 story “Tone Deaf,”…<\/p>\n

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