LAPD Looking for Suspect in Brutal Beating of Transgender Woman In Hollywood
Filed by: Karen Ocamb
October 28, 2010 4:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/10/lapd_looking_for_suspect_in_brutal_beating_of_tran.phpLAPD investigators are looking for five suspects who may have been involved with a brutal attack on a transgender woman Suspect in trans beating in Hollywood.
The 25-year-old victim left a bar frequented by gay Latinos near the intersection of La Brea and Melrose avenues around 1:00 am on Oct. 4. Apparently she was approached by three women and two men who followed her and attacked her - leaving her with a broken jaw and cheek bone. A surveillance camera at the medical marijuana store next door caught the victim talking with some of the people believed to be her attackers. Police are looking for the five people caught on tape, especially the shirtless man in this still taken from the video.
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No doubt the community will have a few questions - such as: why did it take three weeks for the LAPD to draw public attention to this vicious attack? And, why is it not considered a hate crime if the victim is transgender and was known to have come out of a gay bar? I have a question, as well: Why does the LGBT press have to find out about the "unusually vicious" beating of a transgender woman from the mainstream media and not directly from the LAPD?
