Re: Fake Sign Language Interpreter at Police Press Conference

On 2025-01-30 1:33 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

Police department hires sign language interpreter without checking her
credentials or abilities and wackiness ensues.
  https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1884455004678897664/vid/avc1/1280x720/wK2pPp8q96KfWAnB.mp4?tag=16
 

Full credit to the guy that hired her for admitting he just assumed she knew what she was doing. That seems reasonable since she was a volunteer, not a paid employee.
Too many officials in government would have either tried to cover it up or concocted some kind of elaborate justification for it to hide their own mistake.
I'm a little surprised they needed a sign language interpreter in the first place. Interpreters seem to be absolutely standard at all press briefings these days so I just assumed every organization already had permanent staff or regular contractors that they could call on, people that had presumably been vetted before being hired or contracted.
You have to wonder what kind of strange impulse would make that woman volunteer to do something she didn't know how to do in a public-facing role that was bound to be seen. I guess she didn't think far enough ahead to realize that actual deaf people who knew sign language would realize she didn't know what she was doing and would report her.
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Rhino