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Transgender woman sues D.C. police, U.S. marshals


By Michael K. Lavers on July 3, 2012


http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/07/03/transgender-woman-sues-d-c-police-u-s-marshals/



Patti Hammond Shaw (Photo courtesy of Patti Hammond Shaw)


A transgender D.C. woman alleges in a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service that she was improperly placed with male prisoners after a 2009 arrest.

Patti Hammond Shaw of Southeast Washington said she turned herself in to officers at the Sixth District station on June 18, 2009, after she received a letter that stated there was a warrant for her arrest for filing a false police report. Shaw claims that she showed officers her identification that proved she was legally female, but they placed her in a cell in the men's section. She further alleges that male prisoners "asked to see her vagina, breasts and buttocks."