Transsexual Dead After Altercation With Sheriff's Deputies
Last Updated: 11-29-05 at 1:53PM

(AP) - A transsexual woman died four days after a melee with sheriff's deputies at the downtown jail. The coroner's office was awaiting toxicology results before announcing a cause of death. "There is nothing to indicate that the use of force caused this death," Sgt. Rick Empson said Monday. Vanessa Facen, 35, had fought with deputies and medical personnel numerous times since she was found naked and bleeding inside her neighbor's Spring Valley home on Nov. 17...  Although Facen had breasts and lived as a woman, the Sheriff's Department was treating her as a man because  she had male genitalia, Lt. Tom Bennett said.... [Read More]

I want to take a moment and encourage everyone to go to the Wiki and read the Dealing with the Police article. Especially section two which contains a report released by Amnesty International.