Philadelphia police looking to identify 6 people after transgender woman beaten inside her home
WPVI
By 6abc Digital Staff
August 31, 2020
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia police have released a video that highlights six people that police are looking to identify after a transgender woman was beaten inside her home.
The video was captured outside the victim's home on the 1200 block of South 22nd Street around 11 p.m. on Monday, August 24.
The six people highlighted in the video include three women and three men.
In an interview with Action News last week, 34-year-old Kendall Stephens said she was inside her home with her husband, 12-year-old goddaughter and another child when a loud ruckus erupted outside.
"It was a brawl, people were fighting, people were throwing around liquor bottles all in front of my property while I had kids inside," said Stephens.
She says she threatened to call 911 if they didn't quiet down and disperse. Stephens says suddenly some of the people in the group began to attack her, part of which was captured on surveillance camera before it was ripped from the wall.
The police was treating the case as a simple assault according to the video and in the video they said it was the hospital that intervened.
"They called me a tranny, they said, 'You're a man, we're gonna get you.' And they were repeating this all throughout the beating, (they) said that I deserved it," said Stephens.
Transgender Woman Found Dead in Sand at NYC Beach, Police Say
If the woman was killed, she would be the latest in a string of U.S. homicides involving transgender people so far this year
NBC New York 4
August 31, 2020
A 23-year-old transgender woman was found dead in the sand at a Bronx beach early Monday, authorities said.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene near Orchard Beach Road and Park Drive shortly after 6 a.m. It wasn't clear if the victim had any signs of trauma to her body or if she was clothed, nor was it immediately clear, according to police, if authorities suspected she was killed or died of other causes.
Then down in Louisiana an arrest into the murder of a trans woman…
Suspect arrested in Louisiana death of transgender woman
WBRZ
August 30, 2020
GREENSBURG, La. (AP) — A suspect is in custody in Louisiana for the slaying of a transgender woman found dead last month in a rural part of St. Helena Parish, the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies arrested Lynette Muse on Friday on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of Shakie Peters, The Advocate reported. No motive has been released. It’s unknown if Muse has an attorney who can speak on her behalf.
And some good news from a tragedy, the death of a trans woman in police custody.
New York City reaches $5.9 million settlement in death of transgender woman who couldn't pay $500 bail
CNN
By Evan Simko-Bednarski,
August 31, 2020
(CNN)The City of New York has reached a settlement with the family of Layleen Cubilette-Polanco for $5.9 million following her June 2019 death while in custody on Rikers Island.
The transgender woman was arrested in April 2019 and sent to the jail complex because she could not afford $500 bail, her family previously told CNN. She was found unresponsive in her cell on June 7, 2019, and later pronounced dead.
Civil rights groups say Polanco's death represents a web of factors that can trap people of color in the justice system -- especially transgender women of color -- with devastating outcomes.
Her death also renewed conversation about the perils of cash bail and pretrial detention, raising questions about whether New York's recent bail reform laws could have saved her.
Every time we step out the door we run the risk of violence directed toward us just because of who we are.
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