Some new terrible people: “The Metropolitan Police Department [in Washington D.C.] arrested a man suspected of assaulting two transgender individuals, also described as members of the Latino LGBT community, shortly following the incident on Saturday, March 13. According to a report released Monday, March 15, by Sgt. Carlos Mejia, who heads MPD’s Special Liaison Units (SLU), police were called to 14th and Sheperd Streets NW on Saturday. There they found two ‘transgender individuals,’ one of whom suffered injuries from the attack and received medical treatment. ‘The investigation further revealed that the suspect attacked the complainants because of their gender identity,’ Mejia says in the report, adding that the suspect was charged with bias-related assault with a dangerous weapon. The victims were attacked with a ‘metal pole.'” [MW]
2 Trans Women Attacked in D.C. With Metal Pole
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Mike in Asheville, nee "in Brooklyn"
I wonder what would happen if victims of LGBT bashings were offered the opportunity to sentence their convicted assailants either: give each of the victims a metal pole and 10 minutes in a locked room to bash the basher OR 5 years prison.
Cam
DC has had a rash of attacks on Transgenders in the last few years.