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The arrest of two of Philadelphia's LGBTQ leaders by a state trooper during a fraught highway traffic stop is “very concerning,” the city's mayor said after a video showing some of what ...
The state trooper who arrested two LGBTQ+ leaders after a contentious traffic stop in Philadelphia is no longer employed by the Pennsylvania state police, officials said Friday. Pennsylvania State ...
The married LGBTQ leaders arrested during a contentious traffic stop in Philadelphia were driving separately to take a car for repairs when a trooper pulled one of them over, their lawyer said ...
Local LGBT organizations and Gumede's relatives believed the attack to be a hate crime. Sisanda Gumede was a lesbian and an activist for LGBTQ causes. [187] [188] [189] On October 12, 2021, lesbian Limakatso Puling was shot and killed in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. Her family suspects that the shooting was a hate crime. [190] [191]
This overrepresentation of LGBTQ people in incarceration is part of the broader trend of LGBTQ overrepresentation in all stages of the criminal justice system (arrest, incarceration, parole, etc.). [5] LGBT offenders have been little studied, so the causes of the discrepancy are poorly understood. [7]
Police arrested Horace Jamal Marsh for the crime on July 6, 2020. [324] Marsh was also arrested in the Halloween 2017 shooting of Kithwe Steed – an unrelated incident – which went to trial in 2022. [325] Marsh was convicted in that case and sentenced to 25 years in prison. [326] The same gun was used in both incidents. [327]
The post Black Philadelphia LGBTQ leaders arrested in traffic stop, one cuffed lying on highway appeared first on TheGrio. In the cellphone video posted online, the arresting trooper says he ...
LGBT people living in fear of their lives, campaigners Human Rights Watch (HRW) and IraQueer found. HRW's LGBT rights researcher Rasha Younes said: "LGBT Iraqis live in constant fear of being hunted down and killed by armed groups with impunity, as well as arrest and violence by Iraqi police, making their lives unliveable." [40]