Government Worker Uses Her Job To Harass A Client

In California, a state DMV clerk sent a harassing letter to a customer, telling her “God will send you to hell.”

Transgender woman files privacy claim against DMV
She says clerk who handled her application for a driver's license sent her a letter calling her gender change a 'very evil decision'
MSNBC/Associated Press
By Lisa Leff
12/9/10

SAN FRANCISCO — A transgender woman on Thursday filed a claim against the California Department of Motor Vehicles, saying the clerk who handled her application for a new driver's license sent her a letter at home calling her gender change a "very evil decision" that would condemn her to hell.
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"Although I helped you with the name change, I have to say I do not support the reason for it," says the letter, signed with only a first name and typed on plain paper. "I also do not believe the state's recognition of it — through official documents — makes it legitimate or any less evil."

Yust [The victim] alleges the clerk used a state database to find her home address. She said she also received a pamphlet from a New York-based conservative Catholic ministry to whom she thinks the DMV clerk furnished her address.

This is so very wrong on so many levels. The clerk has been suspended, but she should also be arrested for misuse of government database. It is one thing to refuse to marry a couple or change their driver license’s name and gender, but it is something very different to go and look up a person address and send them harassing letters.

Also here is an update on Duanna Johnson who was beaten by a police officer in a Memphis police station in 2008 and later was murdered by an unknown assailant.

Ex-Memphis cop in transgender beating case pleads guilty to tax evasion
By Lawrence Buser
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Posted December 13, 2010

A former Memphis police officer who pleaded guilty in August to beating a transgender prisoner in 2008 pleaded guilty Monday to an additional charge of failing to pay more than $18,000 in federal taxes.
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In August, McRae pleaded guilty to federal civil rights violations involving bodily injury to Dwayne "Duanna" Johnson, who was being booked into the Shelby County Jail in February 2008 after being arrested by McRae for prostitution.

A surveillance tape showed McRae wrapping his handcuffs around his fist and punching Johnson in the head and then using his pepper spray.

McRae testified in trial in April that Johnson became upset and uncooperative during the fingerprinting process because he was referring to Johnson as Dwayne instead of Duanna.

Lets stop the hate!