Daniel Harris Wasn’t An Innocent Deaf Victim of Police But A Road-Raging Psycho

By Bob Owens

When Daniel Harris was shot and killed by North Carolina State Trooper Jermaine Saunders, anti-police activists were quick to assert that Harris died because law enforcement officers aren’t trained to handle deaf people.

They claimed that Harris was probably unaware of the Trooper behind him.

They asserted—without a shred of evidence, at all—that Trooper Saunders shot and killed Harris because he attempted to use sign language.

While we still don’t know much about what happened when Harris finally stopped on Seven Oaks Drive and confronted Trooper Saunders, the claim that Harris was unaware of Trooper Saunders and was merely peacefully driving home has been blown to shreds by confirmation that there was a high speed chase that hit speeds of 100 miles per hour, and that Trooper Saunders thought that Harris was such a threat to the public that he attempted to use both the Pursuit Intervention Technique (PIT maneuver) and a rolling roadblock to keep Harris from killing anyone.

No more than 7 minutes and 30 seconds elapsed on Aug. 18 from the time a state trooper began chasing Daniel Harris to the approximate moment the 29-year-old deaf man was struck with a fatal bullet from the officer’s gun.

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