Deaf Man Tased - Did Mobile Police Go To Far?

Mobile police used pepper spray and tasered Antonio Love While removing him from a Dollar General store bathroom where employees said he had been for more than an hour.

Geography Surveyed: Mobile-Pensacola (Fort Walton Beach) DMA

Data Collected: 07/30/2009

Release Date: 07/30/2009 16:00 ET

Sponsor: WKRG-TV Mobile-Pensacola

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  Asked of 750 Adults


  Margin of Sampling Error for this question = ± 3.6%

Are you familiar with the arrest of Antonio Love, the deaf and mentally disabled man arrested by Mobile Police?

53%
Yes


43%
No


3%
Not Sure

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  Asked of 400 familiar with case


  Margin of Sampling Error for this question = ± 4.9%

Based on what you know, did the police in this case act appropriately? Or not approriately?

36%
Appropriately


58%
Not Appropriately


6%
Not Sure

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They then discovered Love was hearing impaired and was unable to communicate with officers while in the bathroom. They attempted to have him booked on charges of resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and failure to obey a police officer, but a magistrate refused.