To Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings (D), and many others who watched the footage that went viral on social media late last week, the brutal beating looked like “mob violence” against a transgender woman. The video then flips to show the man in the white shirt posing with a man who is filming. At least one woman can be heard yelling a homophobic slur toward the end of the video. Within the LGBTQ community, black transgender women are the most likely to face deadly violence, HRC has found. Last year, a 26-year-old transgender Dallas woman, Carla Patricia Flores-Pavon, was found choked to death in her apartment, though police said that the motive appeared to have been robbery and it was not a hate crime.

Source: Washington Post April 15, 2019 10:12 UTC