Memphis cops brutally beat trans woman
By LeiLani Dowell
Published Jul 9, 2008 10:48 PM
http://www.workers.org/2008/us/memphis_0717/Yet another incident of police brutality has been captured on videotape—this time against a transgender woman in Memphis, Tenn.
While in the booking room of the Shelby County Criminal Justice Center in Memphis on Feb. 12, Duanna Johnson was taunted by a police officer, who called her over to be fingerprinted by using an anti-LGBT slur and the term "he/she." When Johnson courageously told the officer that she would not respond to that language, the officer put on gloves, wrapped a set of handcuffs around his knuckles and proceeded to beat Johnson with them.
