TRANS WOMAN OF COLOR BURNED TO DEATH & THROWN IN THE TRASH

[Black]

On Sunday, 200 friends and family members gathered for a candlelight vigil mourning the death of Yazmin Shanchez, a transgender woman.

Shanchez, 31, was found dead behind a garbage container in Fort Myers, Florida. Her body was found burned. Fort Myers police are investigating the incident as a homicide, but not as a hate crime.

Around 200 people gathered for the vigil at Centennial Park in Fort Myers. The vigil was organized by the Southwest Florida Equality Coalition and The Center of Southwest Florida and began with a walk through downtown Fort Myers, to the courthouse, and back to the park. Participants expressed support for both Shanchez’s family and the larger LGBT community. Some voiced concerns that the homicide was a hate crime committed against the LGBT community, especially the transgender community.

Last week, hundreds mourned the death of transgender activist Zoraida Reyes. Reyes was a passionate transgender and immigration reform activist in Anaheim, California. Her death sparked a national dialogue with vigils being held in Phoenix and San Francisco as well.

Transgender women, especially transgender women of color, are disproportionately subjected to violence – making up more than half of all anti-LGBT homicides in the US according to NCAVP. In addition to anti-transgender violence, trans people of color earn less than $10,000 a year and face severe job discrimination – 32 percent lost a job and 48 percent were not hired due to bias. Since Rita Hester’s murder in 1998, The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is a global event held in November to remember those who have been victims of anti-transgender violence.

 

[Swiggy]

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

Should of known not to go to florida as a tranny

 

[Ricky Church]

.....

 

[Yinny]

This is the stuff Laverne Cox talked about when peeps always wanna obsess over the genitalia. It's not funny or cool at all whatever you think of lgbt folk

Rip to her

 

[Ashley Banks]

Sad. How could you do that someone? You have to really be a fukking psycho to be able to burn someone to death and put their body in the trash.

R.I.P

 

[DekalbTheDon]

Lets learn the facts of his death before we jump to conclusions. I'm assuming some dude went reaching for a biscuit and got a hand full of sausage instead and freaked out but that's just me.

 

[mrken12]

So where are the protests and marches from the LGBT crowd?












@Napoleon Y'all people are slipping.

 

[mrken12]

Lets learn the facts of his death before we jump to conclusions. I'm assuming some dude went reaching for a biscuit and got a hand full of sausage instead and freaked out but that's just me.

Rationalizing a heinous crime on someone and trying to antagonize the victim? That sounds familiar.

 

[King Poetic]

Lets learn the facts of his death before we jump to conclusions. I'm assuming some dude went reaching for a biscuit and got a hand full of sausage instead and freaked out but that's just me.

that's what i'm thinking

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Pic of vic?

Full body shot, prefebbly

 

[Chill]

Rationalizing a heinous crime on someone and trying to antagonize the victim? That sounds familiar.

So we can't speculate on why that happened?

 

[mrken12]

So we can't speculate on why that happened?

What do you think happened? How do you think it went down?

 

[Ashley Banks]

Lets learn the facts of his death before we jump to conclusions. I'm assuming some dude went reaching for a biscuit and got a hand full of sausage instead and freaked out but that's just me.

No. There's no excuse for burning someone to death and throwing their body in the trash. I could understand if a guy stabbed him or shot him for tricking him, even though it's still terrible, I could still understand. But burning him to death & throwing him in the trash, no. Only a psycho could do something like that.

 

[BocaRear]

So where are the protests and marches from the LGBT crowd?












@Napoleon Y'all people are slipping.

I'm saying tho, black people quick to ride for LGBT's but where they at for us?

they're progressing on the backs of our hustle