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    8 transgender men and women (Brayla Stone, 17) killed in 7 days

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    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxy...oJUtuM7s4Px2CQ

    https://www.change.org/p/sherwood-po...se_react=false

    https://atlantatribune.com/2020/06/2...-brayla-stone/

    NEW YORK ' Brayla Stone, a 17-year-old Black trans girl, was murdered in Sherwood, Arkansas near Little Rock on June 25. According to friends she enjoyed experimenting with music, some of which she uploaded to her personal YouTube channel. Her killer has yet to be identified and members of the media continue to discredit her ' using the wrong pronouns and refusing to honor that Brayla Stone should be remembered as she showed up in the world. In response to this tragic news, Executive Director of the National Black Justice Coalition David J. Johns released the following statement:

    'Brayla Stone is the 8th transgender person killed in the last seven days. Brayla Stone was seventeen years young when someone murdered her because we live in a society where it is not yet explicit that when we say BlackLivesMatter we mean all Black lives, which includes Black trans women and girls.

    'Brayla Stone was seventeen when she was murdered. The average life expectancy for a Black trans woman in the United States is around 35 years of age and in 42 states and the District of Columbia it is still legal to murder a trans person under the 'gay panic defense.' A man has bragged about killing Brayla for $5,000 on Snapchat saying it was 'money well spent.'

    'In the last two weeks the current occupant of the oval office signed an executive order revoking health care discrimination protection for trans people. In the last two weeks the SCOTUS rendered a decision affirming the right for trans people to be able to work without being fired for actual or perceived sexual identity, gender orientation, and gender expression'legal protections that don't mean as much if trans people aren't hired and when Black trans girls and women are murdered with impunity. This must end.

    'Both the continued tragic and often silent loss of Black trans, Black queer, and Black non-binary lives as well as the continued adultification of Black girls should be lost on no one'especially as we celebrate the 51st anniversary of Pride and the Stonewall resistance; as mostly white reporters and the white-led media outlets they work for write think pieces about all of the gains white gays have claimed, and as people continue to risk their lives to demand for shifts in policy and practice that acknowledge and protect all Black Lives, especially Black trans women and girls.

    'To help ensure justice for Brayla Stone call Sherwood Police Chief Jim Badwell at 501-835-1425 and demand a complete and public investigation that honors and respects Brayla Stone and the many ways that she showed up in a world that owes her, and other Black trans women and girls so much more.'

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    Suspect Arrested in Death of Arkansas Trans Teen Brayla Stone

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    Police in Sherwood, Ark., have arrested Trevone Miller, 18, on a charge of capital murder in connection with the death of Black transgender girl Brayla Stone.

    Miller was taken into custody Thursday and was being held in Pulaski County Jail, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports. Stone, 17, of North Little Rock, was found dead in a car in Sherwood June 25. Police have not released any information about her cause of death, and the county coroner declined to provide any details to the newspaper until an investigation is complete.

    When Miller was 14, he and two other teens, Xavier Porter and Quincy Parks, were charged with capital murder and aggravated robbery in the ambush and killing of a fourth youth, Bryan Allen Thompson. Miller, who originally was to be prosecuted as an adult, agreed to testify against the others and plead guilty so he could be prosecuted as a juvenile under the Extended Juvenile Jurisdiction Act, which “allows him to be sent to prison if he is not deemed to be rehabilitated by the time he turns 21,” according to a 2016 Democrat-Gazette article.

    He did not end up having to testify, but Parks and Porter were sentenced to 20 and 10 years in prison, respectively, for downgraded charges. In Arkansas, capital murder is punishable by either the death penalty or life in prison without possibility of parole.

    Miller was picked up on a warrant dating back to that case, for which he was on probation, Planet Transgender reports. He also had been arrested in March on unrelated charges of robbery, identity theft, and firearms possession, and had been freed on bail for those charges.

    Area residents have held a vigil in Stone’s honor and called for an end to misgendering of her by police and media. About 100 people attended a vigil last week at a Little Rock church, where a transgender Pride flag was displayed, along with a plaque reading “Black Trans Lives Matter.”

    Police say they so far have no evidence indicating Stone’s death was a bias crime. Arkansas is one of only four states that have no hate-crimes law, LGBTQ+-inclusive or otherwise, but the federal government could intervene under its hate-crimes law.


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