According to Hallandale Beach Police, 45-year-old Barbara Lee confronted Stewart and his friends, because she thought they were throwing gang signs at her. Lee threw up gang signs at the victims, who motioned for Lee to leave them alone. The police report said Lee left the bar, but returned with a juvenile and 19-year-old Marco Ibanez, who allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed the victims. "The suspect obtained two other suspects, they came inside the bar and started fighting with our hearing-impaired victims," said Hallandale Beach Police Officer Sonia Quinones.
"They all were doing hand signs, and it went as if someone thought it was a gang sign," said Brenda Stewart. "He got stabbed, and the other one was cut up. His friend got cut, and he got stabbed. Another one of his friends was talking to the other guy, must have been trying to let the other guy know that it was just talk, and he tried to stop the other people from fighting, and the guy came from behind him and stabbed him, so he doesn't know who it was that stabbed him or nothing. Stabbed him in his back."
Four people, including Stewart, one of his friends and a bouncer at the lounge, were taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood. They are recovering from their injuries. Quinones said, "We have two victims that were stabbed with a knife in the torso area, non-life-threatening injuries. They were taken to the hospital. Another individual that was struck multiple times, one of the bouncers from the bar who attempted to intervene and was struck on the head with a bottle." Lee, Ibanez and the juvenile suspect are currently in police custody.
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5 comments:
I am astounded at the deep and thorough ignorance of some people in the world. Seriously, even if these were gang signs, isn't that the stupidest behaviour anyway? When did we let it slip into a culture that having any sort of common sense, manners or education is seen as a negative? How could you see deaf people communicating and not know that sign language exists? My mind boggles. Learn about the world. Interact. Try not to stab people. Your life will be surprisingly improved.
Years ago I was in a pub with a deaf friend and we were signing away. The barman was trying to close but every time he came over we'd look up, smile, nod point to our glasses and indicate we wanted another couple of pints. After well over an hour of this the barman eventually went and wrote down on a piece of cardboard "Closing now, please leave".
Whereupon I said "Well, why didn't you say so?" since I'm not deaf. He was not amused, but then again he never verbally asked us to leave :)
I agree with Miss Liss. It is mind-boggling to find how ignorant some people can be. So many things that seem to be common sense apparently aren't to a lot of people. It's actually kind of fascinating (in a car crash sort of way).
This is how narrow the gang mindset is--see someone gesturing, immediately think gang signs. See gang signs, stab or shoot someone. This is not ignorance it's stupidity.
It is not ignorance or stupidity. It is EVIL. The battle of good and evil is as ancient as time itself. The ignorance is comes from those that don't believe that struggle still exists.
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