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Title: TRIGGER WARNING: Another claim of police brutality (Antigua)
Post by: iKate on September 13, 2015, 05:02:40 PM
Another claim of police brutality
http://antiguaobserver.com/another-claim-of-police-brutality/
September 13, 2015 Observer media   


Well-known trans-gender individual Prince Warren, better known as Prince is hospitalised after what he alleges was a brutal beating from the police.

Observer has been unable to independently confirm the involvement of lawmen and efforts to reach the Police Commissioner and the PRO for a comment have been unsuccessful so far.

But Prince says he is now warded at the Mount St. John's Medical Centre, after undergoing surgery on his right eye, following the beating.

[...] (http://antiguaobserver.com/another-claim-of-police-brutality/)
Title: Re: TRIGGER WARNING: Another claim of police brutality (Antigua)
Post by: iKate on September 13, 2015, 05:04:34 PM
It's rough in the Caribbean if you're L, G, B or T.

This is not beating by citizens, this is beating by the police.

I'm unsure if there is misgendering because it's unclear about what pronouns they (Prince) go by.

I was told that there are pictures somewhere but I don't want to see them, because it's a reminder that I have to live in exile.