Showing posts with label LGBTQ crimes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LGBTQ crimes. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Transgender Woman TASERED by cops when she revealed she was born male!

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SIMPLY HORRIFIC!, Transgendered Woman TASERED by cops in the crotch when she revealed she was born MALE!

A transgender woman claims she was tasered in the stomach and the crotch by rangers after they found out she was born a man.
Brooke Fantelli, 43, of Romano, San Diego, was stunned by the taser gun by the Bureau of Land Management while she was participating in a photo shoot in the desert near El Centro late last month.
During the disturbing incident, which was captured on cell phone, Ms Fantelli can be seen standing with her hands up talking to police before they taser her in the stomach. 
She is then seen rolling around in agony on the ground before the rangers taser her for a second time in the crotch.
Speaking to News10 about the incident, she said: 'There's no way to put it, it's just plain out brutal, plain out brutal.'
She said the BLM ranger ordered her to lie down in the dirt but she refused, though she did tell him she would not resist being arrested.
She said: 'You can see I'm obviously not threatening him as my hands are in the air.'
Ms Fantelli said the ranger allegedly first accused some in her group of taking nude pictures in the desert and demanded everyone's IDs.
The 43-year-old said once the ranger saw her license - which still has her registered as a man - everything changed.
She told News10: 'He actually looked me straight in the eye and says, "You used to be a guy", and I said, "Yes, I did". There was no way around it. I could see it in his eyes. He wanted to tase me.
'I wasn't giving him any problem. He's got another officer there with him. All he had to do was put the handcuffs on.' 


The rangers eventually arrested her for public intoxication. 
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The BLM issued a statement to 10News which said their ranger acted appropriately. 
It also said: 'When deploying Tasers, rangers target the subject's lower center mass, legs or back if possible. It appears the ranger targeted appropriately in this case.'
Ms Fantelli is allegedly filing a civil lawsuit.
According to LGBT Weekly Brooke Fantelli was previously known as Rodd Fantelli, and was a well known off-road race driver who won numerous races. 
She owns Fantelli Racing Products in Ramona, a custom off-road fabrication shop with 20 years of fabrication and racing history – she’s still a well known figure in the off-road racing community.


Appropriately..SERIOUSLY!?!

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Brandon McInerney GUILTY of SECOND Degree Murder of Lawrence King

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Brandon McInerney GUILTY of SECOND Degree Murder of Lawrence King
A white supremacist teenager pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder for killing a gay student during a computer lab class three years ago in a plea deal that will send him to prison for 21 years and avoid a retrial.
Brandon McInerney, 17, pleaded guilty to the murder charge, as well as one count each of voluntary manslaughter and use of a firearm, said Ventura County Chief Deputy District Attorney Mike Frawley.
McInerney is scheduled to be sentenced on December 19.
The case drew wide attention because of its shocking premise: McInerney, in a fit of homophobic rage, killed 15-year-old Larry King at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard because he was offended by King's dress and how the victim interacted with him.
Larry King's father, Greg King, told KABC-TV he understands why prosecutors agreed to the plea deal.
'I don't think that 21-year sentence is justice for my son, but I understand the reality that was facing the DA of trying to convict a defendant who was 14 ... when he committed the murder,' Greg King said.
Comic Ellen DeGeneres, a lesbian, weighed in on her talk show shortly after the shooting and said gays shouldn't be treated as second-class citizens.
McInerney was only 14 at the time of the February 2008 shooting.
Several jurors said after the teen's trial earlier this year that he should never have been tried as an adult.
A mistrial was declared in September when jurors couldn't reach a unanimous decision on the degree of guilt. The panel took a series of votes, the last one with seven jurors in favor of voluntary manslaughter and five supporting either first-degree or second-degree murder.
The trial had been moved from Ventura County to Los Angeles because of pretrial publicity.
Frawley said prosecutors agreed to the plea deal because of uncertainty about what might result from a second trial.
'We took that into account and looked at what it would take to protect the community,' Frawley said.
'The total time in custody for 25 years will do that.'
The murder conviction will be stayed, and the plea deal calls for McInerney to be given the harshest sentence under California law for voluntary manslaughter - 11 years - and use of a firearm - 10 years, Frawley said. McInerney is ineligible for time served or good behavior because he pleaded guilty to murder.

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After serving nearly four years since King's slaying, McInerney will be released just shy of his 39th birthday.
Prosecutors had previously offered a plea deal that would have sent McInerney to prison for 25 years to life, but his attorneys passed.
A phone message left with defense attorney Robyn Bramson was not immediately returned.
Eliza Byard, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, said in a statement the plea agreement ends a tragic chapter.
'Ventura County along with communities and school districts everywhere must come together to promote a culture of respect and nurture the true potential found in every individual regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression,' Byard said.
King was shot twice in the back of the head in front of stunned classmates. Authorities maintained the shooting was premeditated and deserving of a murder conviction.
During the trial, prosecutors noted at least six people heard McInerney make threats against King in the days before the shooting.
Prosecutors also contended McInerney embraced a white supremacist philosophy that sees homosexuality as an abomination.
Police found Nazi-inspired drawings and artifacts at his house, and a white supremacist expert testified at trial the hate-filled ideology was the reason for the killing.
Prosecutors, however, dropped a hate crime count against McInerney in preparing for a second trial.
Defense attorneys acknowledged McInerney was the shooter but explained he had reached an emotional breaking point after King made repeated, unwanted sexual advances.
They also argued their client came from a violent upbringing and juvenile court would have been the best venue to try him.

Now how much would you want to bet if this was reversed and The Killer was African American accused of shooting a young gay white teen. What do you think the FIRST verdict would have been?

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Monday, November 14, 2011

Michelle "Shelley" Hilliard Murdered in Detroit and Body Burned!

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Missing Transgender Woman Detroit was found DEAD and body was Burned!

Body Found on Detroit's East Side ID'd as Missing Transgender Teen
A mother is in tremendous pain after learning her 19-year-old child, who she thought was missing, was in fact murdered in an horrific way.
The body of Michelle "Shelley" Hilliard, a transgender also known as Henry, was found on Detroit's east side on Bewick, just a torso that had been set on fire and covered with a mattress.
"I don't know anybody that would want to do this to her, to do anything to her," 
said Lyniece Nelson, the victim's mother.
The last anyone had heard from Hillard was the night of October 23rd. Nelson says her daughter had a date and a cab driver dropped her off at a home in the 900 block of Longfellow.
Hilliard asked the cab driver to stay on the phone until she knew it was safe.

"She didn't feel comfortable, to stay on phone with her. He heard her saying a few phrases and heard her saying 'no,' her phone dropped and it was muffled, scuffling noises and then it went dead," Nelson explained.
However, that cab driver never called police, just a friend of Hilliard's who eventually told her mother about what happened.
A few days later, Nelson filed a missing persons report with Detroit Police.
Nelson held out hope, but nearly three weeks later her worst nightmare came true. She got a call from the Wayne County Morgue. Investigators identified Hilliard by some cherry tattoos on her upper arm.

Watch the video by MyFox Detroit
"They showed me the pictures and that was my baby," Nelson said.
It appears Hilliard was killed some time after she was dropped off at that Longfellow address and when parts of her body were discovered on Bewick early that next morning.
Lyniece Nelson described the 19-year-old Shelly Moore -- as a loving and caring person.
"Michele's death wouldn't be the first in our community," said Laura Hughes.
She is the director of the Ruth Ellis Center in Highland Park -- a safe place for lesbian, gay and transgender youth. Hilliard had spent a lot of time there over the last couple of years.
"It's a time for us to reach out an outpouring of love to support her, her friends, her family and to really demand that within our community it's not acceptable for this to happen to a child," Hughes told us.
Hilliard's vicious murder will continue to haunt her mother, who says she will not rest until her killer is caught.

"Whoever did this, you can't hide from God. You can try, but you can't hide from God," she said.
We're told it was a police liaison that works with the morgue that was able to make the connection between the missing persons report and the body.

These Crimes are Horrendous and need to END! Lets hope the killer Is brought to JUSTICE!

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Lesbian Couple finds Hate Speech Marked on their Home!

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Colorado Lesbian Couple Fears For Their Safety After Hate Speech is Marked on their Home!
A Colorado-based lesbian couple fears for their safety after allegedly becoming targets of a frightening hate crime.

As Colorado's KWGN is reporting, Aimee Whitchurch and her partner of four years, Christel Conklin, found "Kill the Gay" scrawled in red spray paint across the garage door of their Parker condominium last weekend. A day later, a noose was found on their doorstep.
"You get words like 'homos' or 'you're going to burn in hell' and things of that nature, but 'kill the gay?' That's a threat against our lives so it was overwhelming," Whitchurch explained. "The noose is where it really became shocking and scary."
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Whitchurch and Conklin also confessed to other problems, such as complaints from neighbors who claim they do not pick up after their dogs, with their homeowners association at the Parker condo complex -- many of which they believe may be motivated by homophobia. In addition, the report also pointed out one neighbor who has allegedly filmed the couple from a window. Although the association has covered over the hate message, the couple believes the haphazard paint job is yet another example of the harassment they have to live through in the neighborhood.

MY GOODNESS Why folks just can’t people LIVE AND LET LIVE!

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