Isn't it nice that on the heels of a woman being murdered in a crime that is suspected of being an anti-transgender hate crime the police in D.C. decide that beating women for being lesbians is not worthy of prosecution? According to this report that is exactly what happened.
Fortunately the D.C. Police Department has a LGBT liaison and they did take a report.
“Suspect 1 became enraged and stated, “You fucking dyke bitches, I will kick that bitch’s ass,” the report says. “I will take that dyke bitch into the alley and kick her ass,” the report quotes suspect 1 as saying.
Sounds like assault to me.
The police report, which lists Morse as Complainant 1, says suspect 1 punched her in the left eye. “Complainant 1 staggered back and Suspect 1 punched C-1 twice more with a closed fist. It says that when the other women tried to assist C-1, they were hit by both suspects.The suspects punched each of the women in the head and face, the report says.
But the first responders did not see it that way.
A third man who accompanied the two attackers used his cell phone to make a video recording of the attack and continued to record the unfolding drama after the police arrived, said Yazzmen Morse, 21, who suffered a black eye and a swollen face from the assault.According to Morse and the other victim, six or seven officers arrived on the scene in four police cars after responding to an apparent 911 call from a bystander. The two women said the officers, who are assigned to the Third District police station, refused to take a report of the incident, ignoring the women’s repeated requests to make a report.“The police grabbed one of the attackers and restrained him,” Morse told the Blade. “Then they let him go. And then they said they didn’t want to hear our stories.”
Sadly this is an all to common occurrence. How common? I too have had violence perpetrated against me and then had the police refuse to take a report. The cost of being different in this society can be deadly.