Another Day, Another Trans Person Jacked With

Sigh.  Seems as though jacking with trans people doesn't take a day off even during the Christmas season.

Here's the story of a Jackson, TN transwoman who went shopping with her mother on Consumers Gone Wild Friday (the day after Thanksgiving)  to Kohl's.  She and her mother were assaulted by other shoppers as the store opened for business and the Kohl's employees stood idly by greeting customers. 

The assault broke Akasha Adonis' jaw and three teeth.   What's worse is that once the Jackson Po-Po's arrived on the scene and discovered out that Akasha was trans due to mismatched ID, they stopped treating her with respect, declined to look at the surveillance tape and their interest in solving this case has deteriorated as well.

When the officer first arrived on the scene and asked about the assault, he addressed me as she then asked for my i.d. and my name. [When] the  officer saw that it was a male name, and I was a male to female transsexual, he immediately changed his demeanor in how he treated me and the other witnesses. He rolled his eyes and turned his back to not look at me and said that he had 'other places to be.' There was no more conversation directed to me but to fellow officers and [other] people. He was short and rude/dismissive to witnesses and to the officers I was the 'He not She.' The officer told my mother that the case would take a few days to write up and he would get the surveillance tape and then walked away. In the officer report he put in that "the black male then defended himself and put Quick in his place."

If officer Ashley McCullar had been thinking fast on his feet and immediately reviewed the surveillance tape, instead of dissing Akasha, it probably could have resulted in the arrest of the person who attacked her and her mother because in all likelihood he was still in the store.

The Nashville based Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition ain't happy about this either and are urging people to call the mayor of Jackson, TN and the chief of the Jackson Police Department    

Mayor Jerry Gist's Phone: (731) 425-8240; Mayor's Fax: (731) 425-8605

Chief of Police Gill Kendrick: (731) 425-8400

I also hope Akasha has a good civil rights attorney on retainer by now so she can sue the crap out of Kohl's and eventually the fool that assaulted her.

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