From the [Mobile, AL] Press-Register:

Police trying to get a man to come out of the bathroom in a store in Mobile, Alabama, used pepper spray and a taser on him, only to learn that he was deaf and had an intellectual disability.

The officers tried to book 37-year-old Antonio Love for disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and failure to obey a police officer, but a judicial magistrate refused to process the charges. Love’s family members said the officers then dropped him off in the parking lot of their apartment building and sped away without explaining why he had been missing for hours.

Love said he was in the bathroom of the Dollar General store because he felt ill. Family members have filed a formal complaint; the incident is under investigation.

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