Rally for Black trans lives draws packed crowd to Brooklyn Museum plaza.
“The video is the last piece of the puzzle,” David Shanies, an attorney for Polanco’s family in a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of New York and several Rikers staffers, told NBC News. “It's the last bit of indifference to her life that we saw and recklessness to a person who obviously needed help.”
The body of Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells was found Monday floating in the Schuylkill River in Southwest Philadelphia,Fells’ death is a reminder that as the nation discusses Black Lives Matter, that transgender lives are included,“We are reminded with this, and countless other painful losses—especially within our transgender communities—that there is much left to do until we achieve full equality, respect, and support for us all,” the office said.
“In the same week countless people across the globe stand up for racial injustice, in the same week we honor the 49 victims of the Pulse massacre in Orlando, in the same week a billionaire author spouts transphobic rhetoric to millions -- in this same week, we have lost two more Black transgender women to the same fate most of us worry about every day,” Cooper said.George Floyd’s death,
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