Shooting of transgender woman in L.A. termed robbery, not hate crime; LGBT community protests

[shenmue]

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/10/04/us-los-angeles-transgender-woman-shot-dead/

Aniya Asia Parker, a transgender woman, was shot dead in East Hollywood. Police are treating the case as a 'botched robbery,' not a hate crime- which has resulted in an outcry from the LGBT community.

[tech3149]

1. Well of course!

If you have the money for gender reassignment you are naturally a target for robbery of some sort. Why on earth would you investigate if there were other reasons or how they targeted the victim otherwise?

It never ceases to amaze me how little justice is in our just us system.

[Wella]

2. If you're really interested in the case, you might look at the video footage of the crime

and the police's identification of the suspects:

(Footage at the link)
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/10/02/disturbing-camera-footage-offers-leads-in-transgender-killing/


EAST HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) — Newly obtained security camera footage is providing detectives with new leads into the killing of a transgender woman in East Hollywood.

The footage, obtained from an auto body shop, shows the three suspects, whom police described as three Latino men in their 20s, walking on Melrose near Kenmore avenues around 3 a.m. Thursday.

Moments later, the victim is seen heading in the same direction. She was described as a transgender woman in her mid-40s.

The suspects are then seen confronting the woman before allegedly taking her purse. As the woman runs across the street, she is shot in the head, according to KCAL9’s Peter Daut.

The victim, clearly wounded, stumbles across the street and collapses on the sidewalk. Minutes later and after the suspects took off, a bystander stops to help, but it’s too late...

Edited to add youtube link: