Ethan Saylor
Ethan Saylor case settled for 1.9 million dollars. Off-duty deputies murdered the young man with Down syndrome in January 2013.
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No #JusticeForEthan – Two Years Later
Two years ago, tonight, three off-duty deputies moonlighting as mall security killed Ethan Saylor. They killed Ethan Saylor by forcing him to the ground, fracturing his trachea. They killed him because they couldn’t figure out how to deal with a large, cursing, man with Down syndrome. They killed him because no one in the theater, …
Sunday Roundup – Disabilities and Proof
This week was focused on what the Kanye West incident tells us about disability in our culture. I wrote a brief blog post about it here, linking it to another post on the “pencil test.” It got a very good response, so I wrote another piece about it for CNN, building on the argument. That too …
#JusticeForEthan and the Election of a Sheriff
I started writing about police violence and disability because of the death of Ethan Saylor. I had read stories like this for years, but when Ethan died, unlike during previous tragedies, I had a few links to media. I first wrote this piece for The Nation. I then wrote this widely-read piece for CNN and …