Trans girl beaten to death

[MHarrigan82]

RIP Islan Nettles The guy that murdered her needs too go to jail for life. This needs to stop. It looks like every week or two a transgender woman is getting murdered. I was surprised by all the positive comments on the news paper article with the story.

[Toadily]

What the fuck???? $2000 bond?
What a fucking travesty!!!

The suspect was out on bond the next day on only 2000$ bail and remains free today. http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/2013...s-free-on-bail

Now that she died he will be re arrested and charged with a hate crime and manslaughter at the least, should be murder.

But $2000 for that vicious of an assault is crazy low.

[TempestTS]

What the fuck???? $2000 bond?
What a fucking travesty!!!

Should have been handled as a Hate crime - pure and simple - and a couple more zeros added onto the bond to keep them sitting in a cell till they could be tried for the true nature of the crime.

[StlyeMeCunty]

Uhmmmm... I am a little scared that this happened very close to where I live in the city. I really hate that I moved up here but I have to save money!

[EyeCumInPiece]

Uhmmmm... I am a little scared that this happened very close to where I live in the city. I really hate that I moved up here but I have to save money!

Very close to me as well. Very sad. What a shitty world we live in.

[CORVETTEDUDE]

MAYBE IF…

AUGUST 23, 2013
Maybe….maybe if every man who has ever hired a trans escort, if every boy who has ever beat off to trans porn, if all the guys I and thousands of others have hooked up with via Craig’s List, if the millions who fetishize our bodies, who enjoy us on our knees in bathrooms, who press us against hotel windows, who lay with us in our beds, if the men who adore me and my sisters, but only behind closed doors, would STAND THE FUCK UP AND SPEAK OUT…maybe 21 year old women just enjoying an evening out with friends wouldn’t be beat to death.

Maybe if all of you who read this, our allies and friends and colleagues and family, would call out when others make jokes at our expense, even when we’re not around, if you’d tell advertisers and producers and journalists and writers and comics that you’re not okay with them making trans women nothing but the punchline of jokes or tragic tossaways, that you know us, that we’re not disposable….maybe groups of people would stop feeling so free to harass me and my sisters, maybe crowds wouldn’t just laugh when a man spits at me, or just watch when two young men chase me down the street yelling “shemale”…maybe if you ALL stood up and said enough, maybe a young woman just being herself wouldn’t be beat to death in the streets of the supposedly best place on earth to just be yourself.


Maybe if all the gay men who act as if equality means marriage, if all the white feminists who only serve those that look like them, if all the queers who drop “TWOC” like a shibboleth but don’t know or talk to or walk beside any actual trans women of color…maybe if all of you saw what was happening here and how your actions allow it, how every moment of silence, of waiting for people of color to start the conversation about race …maybe this child could have enjoyed a few more years of being beautiful among us.

A 21 year old was beat to death in our streets. It happened because she is a woman, and of color, and transgender. It happened because our men won’t admit they love us, because our friends aren’t speaking out against the thousand little dehumanizing actions of others, because our own “LGBT” community isn’t comfortable talking about race and class.

This has to change. Now.

Link to the original writing should you want to pay attention:
http://smartassjen.tumblr.com/post/59112057117/maybe-if

Very well stated, Victoria. Thank you for that.

[flabbybody]

some very brave souls took to the freezing cold streets of lower Manhattan to protest NYPD's bungled investigation into the poor girl's murder.
We'll see if the Super Bowl obsessed local media will give the rally any coverage. I doubt it.

http://www.edgeonthenet.com/news/loc...%80%99s_murder

[red-cyberman]

This is sad so disturbing

[flabbybody]

this is astounding:

"Life expectancy for transgender women of color is 23 years, according to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. The Trans Murder Monitoring Project reports that on average one trans person is murdered per month in the U.S., most of them women of color."

[breakingbad14]

My God what is wrong with this world...

there's way too much stupidity