Deadly Washington DC

If you are trans, Washington DC is becoming a place of death for us. The third attack on a trans-person this summer happened this week. WTOP reported…

The latest incidents occurred Monday morning, when a transgender woman was shot in the neck and drove herself to a police station, and a group of three transgender women were attacked near a Metro station on Minnesota Avenue.
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At least seven muggings of transgender women also have occurred in the Mount Vernon Square neighborhood of D.C. over the past three weeks. And all of the attacks come after two transgender people were attacked -- one killed -- on Dix Street in Northeast in July.

Police additionally are investigating the death of an unidentified transgender woman wearing makeup, blue shorts, a black and purple jacket and carrying high heels who was found unconscious in the 2600 block of 11th Street NW early Saturday morning.

This was on top of a dunking off duty Washington DC police officer who fired several shots into a car with five trans-women in it. WTOP reported that,

WASHINGTON - An off-duty D.C. police officer who is in jail for shooting at members of the transgender community stood on the hood of the car while firing his Glock 9, according to court records.

Court papers say Officer Kenneth Furr fired multiple shots into the car with five people inside. One victim was hit multiple times.

Furr is in D.C. jail but segregated from the general population for his safety since he is a police officer.

As he was standing on the hood of the car, court records say Furr shouted "I'm gonna kill you."

Meanwhile just north of Washington in Baltimore Mayland, the sentencing of the woman who brutally beat a trans-woman at a McDonald’s is today (I blogged about it here), the juvenile who also took part has already been sentenced and is serving time in a juvenile facility.

Update: 11:25am

I just came across another story about Washington DC...

A D.C. Department of Corrections officer is under investigation for making death threats against two women, one of them a transgender inmate.

The officer allegedly threatened to kill the transgender inmate and an activist that works with transgender individuals after the pair complained to authorities that the officer was harassing the inmate and behaving in a trans-phobic manner.
WAMU

Update: 12:20pm

The woman in the McDonald's beating was sentenced to 10 years in prison with five years suspended. I think it should have been a lot longer, but at least she pleaded guilty and the victim did not have to testify.

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