Two deputies will be suspended and a Florida sheriff has apologized after a visually-impaired man was arrested last month when his walking cane was mistaken for a gun, officials say.
Two deputies will be suspended and a Florida sheriff has apologized after a visually-impaired man was arrested last month when his walking cane was mistaken for a gun, officials said.
“As sheriff, I take full responsibility for this event and want to extend my sincere apologies to Mr. Hodges for the actions of my deputies,” Hunter said. “I do not feel these deputies’ actions were guided by ill intent, but rather by frustration and failure to rely on their training. Nevertheless, this conduct is unacceptable.”
The arrest report said Gohde stopped Hodges after seeing him enter a cross walk when a traffic control device indicated not to walk. The morning was foggy and overcast and drivers were using their headlights, the report said. The report said Hodges appeared to be carrying a “silver pistol with a white grip in his back right pocket.”
Hodges appears to say it’s a navigating aid. He tells Gohde, “What’s the problem? Are you a tyrant,” the video shows. Hodges responds, according to the video, he doesn’t need to identify himself unless there’s been a “reasonable articulated suspicion that I have committed a crime, am committing a crime or about to do a crime.”
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