Hearing impaired people tuning into a news conference about the arrest of a suspected serial killer in the Tampa area got a message of gibberish as they watched an American Sign Language interpreter.
"[The interpreter] sat up there and waved her arms like she was singing Jingle Bells," Rachelle Settambrino, who is deaf and teaches ASL at the University of South Florida, told the Tampa Bay Times through an interpreter.
"I was disappointed, confused, upset and really want to know why the city of Tampa’s chief of police who is responsible for my safety and the safety of the entire community did not check her out."
Tampa Police Department spokeswoman Janelle McGregor says officials are conducting a review because they didn't request an interpreter for the Nov. 28 news conference.
The Tampa Police Department had a new interpreter for a Nov. 29 news conference about the murders.