Note that I'm not necessarily opposed to her facing consequences for killing him -- my issue is with how gleefully NYPost is framing it as if she just attacked him out of the blue and shoehorning her into the "evil transgenders" stereotype
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They are quotes from the victim's family members at the trial. This woman murdered someone because someone called her a transphobic name after she cut the line at a deli. She isn't a good person.
Welp, at least he isn't going to call anyone else slurs anymore, that's definitely a plus.
I wish I was as cool as her
You wish you were so fragile and evil of a human being that you would murder people who insulted you?
Please get help. You are not ok if this is what you think.
He didn't get killed because he insulted someone. He got killed because he thought he could assault a trans woman and get away with it.
I don't think you know what that word means. Not only he was a transphobe piece of shit and started the whole confrontation in that specific way, at every turn he chose to escalate despite the involvement of the bystanders to pacify the situation. You just don't have the right to enact violence on people, sometimes you find that out the hard way.
She starts the whole conflict by cutting in line according to witnesses.
She escalates the situation by spitting on the guy which is assault in NYC
He hits her after she spits on him so he has already been attacked according to the law and is responding to it (had he not been murdered they both should have been arrested for this).
She then murders him. There is no defense for this that can legally be presented because he was unarmed.
There is no justification for her actions at any step. She is 100% at fault and should never see the light of day ever again as she has a history of knife violence.
Is this codified somewhere or are you just making shit up?
I only stab people with consent. I wish I was brave enough to get dirty with a transphobe's blood ☺️🤤😋
Coolness like that isn't realistic for normal people like us.
You know how many trans people commit suicide because they are ridiculed, spat at, hit, degraded in all sorts of circumstances all the time?
If people are more afraid to treat trans people like shit, that means fewer trans kids and trans people killing themselves.
She likely saved more lives by 1 death. There should be a culture of fear around disrespecting trans people. I am glad assholes will be more afraid that the trans person they dislike could have a knife and could stab them. She's an American Hero.
Also fuck you. Now multiply that by 1000, all the time, every day, and that's how trans people feel all the time you stupid ignorant fuck.
I'm a trans woman. Self defense? Stabbing someone 14 times to death and talking about how much you loved it and would do it again? That's pretty plainly not self defense. Even if you are happy a transphobe got atabbed to death (please, develop some empathy) she clearly deserves the sentence she got. Trans people are just people, some of us are evil bastards, just like all the other people. I've gotten slurs yelled at me, I would fight back if I needed to, but I'd never take sadistic glee in murdering someone. Please, consider what I've said. Try to understand why I said it. Don't bother ranting at me in a reply, I'm preemptively blocking you because I truly don't believe you want to do anything but argue.
if the worst you've experienced is slurs you're privileged. the rest of us understand that there is no use empathizing with those who refuse to practice empathy and prefer instead to conceptualize us as monsters, treat us as monsters, and take it into their own hands to destroy us like monsters.
He attacked her. She warned him. Others tried to stop him. He would not relent. He cornered her. Sorry, in that situation you do what it takes to make it stop. No empathy for that asshole or his shithead family here.
As a bi guy, who probably doesn't come across as obviously effeminate when talking, who is probably able to walk down the street without getting dirty looks for being bi, who probably is able to go to a deli and buy a sandwhich without people knowing you are bi, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about...
But a lot of idiots are hot... Which makes me think you might be hot... And if you are bi and hot we should kick it sometime. You want to give me the help I need? ;-)
by all accounts he hit her several times before she retaliated. her court testimony states that she backed away until she was cornered, and that she warned him that she would kill him if he continued. witnesses say that several people tried to intervene and he wouldn't back down.
no, this was not a case of someone getting murdered over a slur and nothing else.
he was bashing a queer and the queer exhausted all other options before bashing back. she did what it took to make the assault stop and as someone who's been bashed i find it hard to fault her actions or her feelings.
if this woman were cis and he called her a bitch before punching her and backing her into a corner and relentlessly trying to beat her to a pulp for existing near him we'd be reading a very different story about bravery and resilience and shit.
fuck him, fuck the media for this victim-blaming shit, i hope there's a hell for him to go to.
the problem wasn't "tranny got triggered". be better.
Several withess say she started the fight, she escalated the fight and neither stepped down.
Regardless she stabbed him. She has a history of knife crimes for fuck's sake. She wasn't a victim here. The dead guy was a victim. He might have been a transphobic asshole but that shouldn't be a death sentence.
If she were cis, armed, taller than him and outweighed him as she did in this case? I don't think she would be getting beaten to a pulp.In this case she waslarger, younger, stronger AND SHE STARTED THE FIGHT. There should be some degree of responsibility she bears for starting the fight and murdering someone.
No one said the problem was anything to do with them being trans. They have a history of knife crimes and they PROUDLY murdered someone. This is a case of a person who murdered someone because they felt entitled to. They said as much directly
Be better stop defending murders because they happen to be trans.
If you're so transphobic you beat up women in the bodega maybe it should be. I don't trust the government to protect us, we need to protect ourselves.
Transwoman isn't a word. She's a woman. She's trans. She's a trans woman.
You skipped over the part where he physically assaulted her several times and backed her into a corner while she was trying to get him to stop.
He allegedly wasn't even part of the initial disagreement, but came in from somewhere else and started assaulting her verbally and physically.
Not saying her attitude here is right, but given the current climate, I 100% believe that she may have feared for her life.