After Duanna Johnson: What Next?
http://questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/after-duanna-johnson-what-next/11/19/2008
This is what we demand:* An LGB and T liaison within the MPD and Sheriff's department.
* An end to police profiling and harassment of trans women of color.
* A TBI (TN Bureau of Investigation) investigation of the MPD and Duanna's murder. The FBI was already investigating the MPD when Duanna was killed; she had signed the paperwork to go ahead with the lawsuit against MPD shortly before being killed. While I am not suggesting that the MPD or anyone associated with the department killed her, it is a gross conflict of interest for the MPD to be investigating her death. The DA, Bill Gibbons, has not yet requested an investigation and until he does, the TBI does not have jurisdiction.
* An actual investigation of Ebony Whitaker's murder.
