Lawsuit challenging arrest of NYC transgender woman settled The New York Police Department must provide more training on protecting the rights of transgender people as part of a settlement of a civil rights lawsuitNEW YORK -- The New York Police Department will have to give its force more training on protecting the rights of transgender people as part of a deal announced Tuesday that settles a civil rights lawsuit accusing officers of mocking a transgender woman by putting her in pink handcuffs. “I never want anyone to go through the abuse I experienced from people sworn to protect me,” Dominguez said in a statement. It also will retrain officers in the Bronx precinct where Dominguez was arrested on the rights of transgender and gender-nonconforming people, her lawyers said. The officers placed Dominguez in a cell, handcuffed to a bar or pipe using pink handcuffs, and left her in the handcuffs all night, according to her lawsuit. Dominguez, 45, a cosmetologist and an activist for the rights of transgender immigrants, said that the arrest caused her “mental anguish, ongoing humiliation and embarrassment” and that she remains afraid of the police.

Source: ABC News November 10, 2020 19:34 UTC