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Fucking STOP killing transsexuals, and trans people.
Fucking STOP killing people of color.
Fucking STOP killing sex workers.
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I know, you know, but its on my mind:
In the span of 10 ten days this August, three trans women of colour murdered in the East Coast.
From August 16 to August 26th:
Bella Evangelista
Location: Washington, D.C.
Cause of Death: Shot, allegedly by Antoine Jacobs
Date of Death: August 16, 2003
Source: Washington Post, August 18, 2003
Bella Evangelista was a popular entertainer in D.C., and periodically performed at Club Chaos. She was shot multiple times at close range. Antoine D. Jacobs has admitted to the murder, but claims it was in self-defense. Police do not believe his story, and are treating this murder as a hate crime.
Emonie Kiera Spaulding
Location: Washington, D.C.
Cause of Death: Shot, allegedly by Antwan D. Lewis
Date of Death: August 20, 2003
Source: WMAR, August 21, 2003
25-year-old Emonie Kiera Spaulding was from Massachusetts and North Carolina, and had been living in D.C. for about two years. According to her Uncle, Spaulding loved music as a child and sang in a church choir. Her partially nude body was discovered by police in a field. She had been shot but also had severe head wounds. There was a second near-fatal shooting of a transgendered woman the same evening, which police do not feel was related.
Cassandra Tula Do
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cause of Death: Strangled
Date of Death: August 26, 2003
Source: Toronto Police Department, August 26, 2003
Cassandra Do, or Sandra as her friends knew her, was a transsexual woman working as a sex-worker under the pseudonym Tula in Toronto, saving up for genital surgery and nursing school. She had many friends. She was found in her 11th-floor apartment. An autopsy concluded that she was strangled to death.
Fucking STOP killing people of color.
Fucking STOP killing sex workers.
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I know, you know, but its on my mind:
In the span of 10 ten days this August, three trans women of colour murdered in the East Coast.
From August 16 to August 26th:
Bella Evangelista
Location: Washington, D.C.
Cause of Death: Shot, allegedly by Antoine Jacobs
Date of Death: August 16, 2003
Source: Washington Post, August 18, 2003
Bella Evangelista was a popular entertainer in D.C., and periodically performed at Club Chaos. She was shot multiple times at close range. Antoine D. Jacobs has admitted to the murder, but claims it was in self-defense. Police do not believe his story, and are treating this murder as a hate crime.
Emonie Kiera Spaulding
Location: Washington, D.C.
Cause of Death: Shot, allegedly by Antwan D. Lewis
Date of Death: August 20, 2003
Source: WMAR, August 21, 2003
25-year-old Emonie Kiera Spaulding was from Massachusetts and North Carolina, and had been living in D.C. for about two years. According to her Uncle, Spaulding loved music as a child and sang in a church choir. Her partially nude body was discovered by police in a field. She had been shot but also had severe head wounds. There was a second near-fatal shooting of a transgendered woman the same evening, which police do not feel was related.
Cassandra Tula Do
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cause of Death: Strangled
Date of Death: August 26, 2003
Source: Toronto Police Department, August 26, 2003
Cassandra Do, or Sandra as her friends knew her, was a transsexual woman working as a sex-worker under the pseudonym Tula in Toronto, saving up for genital surgery and nursing school. She had many friends. She was found in her 11th-floor apartment. An autopsy concluded that she was strangled to death.