An investigation into a confrontation between Gallaudet University students and campus police found fault with the school officials, protesters and campus police.
The independent 53-page report, conducted by a former deputy attorney general of the Clinton administration, investigated the struggle between three DPS officers and a large group of students who had taken over the main classroom building on Oct. 6, 2006.
The report didn’t substantiate protesters’ claims that police used excessive force, but it did conclude that police crossed the line of what is expected of them.
The report said that one officer who pushed his way through a crowd of protesters was blamed inadequately trained. But the report also blamed the protesters for aggressively resisting police entrance while they were investigating a bomb threat from within the building. The protesters’ conduct was inappropriate and invited confrontations from the campus police, the report says.
The report recommended that Gallaudet hire more deaf and hard-of-hearing officers and enact sign-language standards for officers.
