Transgender Woman Attacked on Halloween

• One of the many such attacks that happen every week somewhere in the USA. I think the death toll from them is about 20 this year, less than average.

• It saddens me that we are "suppose" to love one another but somewhere along the way it turned into only love people when they are the way you think they should be...so sad...human beings are human beings no matter what path they take...we all bleed red.

• Let's not make race an issue here as it wasn't an issue reported above.   Bigotry and hatred were. Let's fight the real problem. A guy thinking it's okay to beat or kill somebody because they might be transgender or gay. I won't even call it transphobia or homophobia because we don't know if this person had any fear of transgender or gay people. That's why I chose bigotry and hatred. I also question the thinking of a any person saying " Throw the book at him." simply because the suspect is black. I don't care if the person saying it is black. Let's not add to the ugliness of this situation by adding our own ugliness to it, too. Oddly there are a couple of things noteworthy here: 1) The victim defended herself well. 2) Police arrested the idiot! 3) Police used the hate crime statue which is a clear signal to all that the rest of society won't tolerate hate that turns into violence. That is pretty great message, don't you think? 4) The reporter got pronouns for the victim correct. In this case is as it appears then justice might actually come for a transgender victim of violence... and that is newsworthy as well.

• Speaking as a black man that suspect makes us all look bad. Throw the book at him.

• disgusting 

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