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Getting To Know Each Other

A meet-and-greet between first responders and people with disabilities builds understanding, trust, and more informed emergency interactions.

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Photo Credit: Khalil Gill, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Department of Parks and Recreation

Commission, Department of Parks and Recreation

It was a question worth asking, and this student wasn’t holding back. He was chatting with Corporal Randy Green, a Maryland-National Capital Park Police officer since 2006, and the question seemed most important.

“What happens if you handcuff me and I can’t use my hands to speak,” the student asked through his deaf interpreter.