{"id":4399,"date":"2026-03-13T01:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/deaf-woman-awarded-1-2-million-after-police-arrested-her-for-andquot-not-listeningandquot\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T01:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:16:23","slug":"deaf-woman-awarded-1-2-million-after-police-arrested-her-for-andquot-not-listeningandquot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/03\/deaf-woman-awarded-1-2-million-after-police-arrested-her-for-andquot-not-listeningandquot\/","title":{"rendered":"Deaf Woman Awarded $1.2 Million After Police Arrested Her For &#8220;Not Listening&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table width=\"80%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\">\n                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HoHN21lUm2RQ.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\">\n                <\/td>\n<td width=\"80%\" valign=\"top\">Andrea &#8220;Dre&#8221; Hollingsworth, a deaf Black mother, was awarded $1.2 million after North Las Vegas police arrested her for &#8220;not listening&#8221; during a 2021 traffic stop. Her daughters tried to tell officers she was deaf, but they still cuffed her. Bodycam footage shows her signing and her 11-year-old twins being forced to interpret, exposing major failures in how police handle disabilities. She was just trying to get her rent money back.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea &#8220;Dre&#8221; Hollingsworth, a deaf Black mother, was awarded $1.2 million after North Las Vegas police arrested her for &#8220;not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14044,"featured_media":4404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[10,9],"class_list":["post-4399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-rss","tag-culture","tag-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}