Angel Johnson Update

Angel Johnson is the Indianapolis transwoman I posted about who was shot six times during a home invasion, survived it and is now recovering from her injuries.  

But according to Diamond Stylz,  the apartment complex she was living in just added insult to her injuries. 

Citing that she was 'a danger to other residents', they evicted her from her apartment.    WTF?

I'm about to go Maya Wilkes now.   She's the one who was shot, her sister jumped from her third floor apartment window and broke her ankle trying to escape the gunman, and Angel is a 'danger to other residents'?  


Diamond gives more details about Angel and the ugly situation  

DC Transperson Minding Own Business, Gets Dissed, Then Arrested

There are some days in which even when we transpeeps are minding our own damn business, we find ourselves in 'Twilight Zone' situations.

25 year old Chloe Moore of DC found herself in one of those situations on December 1  

Chloe and a trans friend were walking in the 1500 block of K St. NW around 2 AM EST and crossed paths with off duty officer Raphael Radon and his male and female friend.    Chloe's friend was a smoker, didn't have her lighter on her, noted Radon had a cigarette.and asked for a light.

“We didn’t have a lighter and we see a gentleman who had a cigarette lit,” Moore told the Washington Blade.  “My friend goes and asks for a light and he said, ‘Hey ladies, how you doing?’ And we said we’re doing fine.”

According to Moore, as Radon approached them he discovered they were trans he became hostile, uttered transphobic statements and disparaging remarks at Moore and shoved her.   Knowing what we all know about anti-trans violence aimed at us, in self defense she maced him and ran.  Radon gave chase, caught up with her two blocks later, tackled her,  and then identified himself as a police officer .

Of course Radon's blue buddies charged Moore with simple assault, but DC criminal law attorney Dale Edwin Saunders, described as “highly unusual” the decision by police and the United States Attorney’s office to charge Moore in the case.

“This person would have never been arrested or papered if the complaining witness had been a civilian,” Saunders said. “The defendant had two witnesses corroborating her version of the events.”
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Moore is also filing a complaint against Officer Radon as well.   


The case is still pending, but it's just more empirical evidence that when it comes to transpeople, 'Officer Friendly' ain't so friendly.

TransGriot Update:  The DC Trans Coalition has released a statement condemning Officer Radon's attack on Ms. Moore.

*Sigh*-Another GLBT Murder In Jamaica

The Hate on Transpeople for the Holidays Campaign continues around the world.  

The latest installment comes from Jamaica, the most GLBT phobic of all the Caribbean islands.  

Rod 2.0 beta posted this story.   In the comment threads someone posted a link to the Jamaica Star tabloid story that I'm posting.   

J-FLAG  has these details from their website and adds more details like the date of the murder being  November 3.

Since Charm was presenting as female, I'm applying AP Stylebook rules per TransGriot policy

The body of a person dressed in female clothing was found with multiple stab and chop wounds yesterday afternoon on the Half-Way Tree Road in St Andrew.
 
The dead person has been identified as 22 year old Charm Ashwan Williams.


Reports from the Constabulary Communications Network are that around 2 p.m. citizens saw the body lying face down at 61 Half-Way Tree Road and alerted the police.   The police are said to have responded, the body removed to the morgue and the crime scene processed.

The Half-Way Tree police are investigating the incident.

Hatin' On Transwomen For The Holidays Again

I was going to write a post like I did  last year on Thanksgiving Day asking if we transwomen would catch a break from any faith based hatred being directed our way from now until Christmas Day.

In the 2K10 I didn't even get a chance to sit down and write it before two rad fem drones jumped off the 2010 Hatin' Transwomen For The Holidays campaign     Bossip, being the cesspool of transphobia it is joined in with its ugly anti-trans commentary on a Tyjanae Moore post,  and I'm willing to bet Papa Nazi and his Christopimps will be chiming in sooner or later as well, along with our other assorted haters.

Well, at least we haven't had any.....damn,.I'd better not even write down what I'm thinking because it might happen. 

Damn, can't we transpeople get any peace during the holidays?

Guess that's too much to ask