Police departments are facing new claims of brutal treatment, this time by transvestite prostitutes and armed robbers who claim police treat men in dresses like men in dresses. Here's one harrowing tale of a man dressed up as a woman:
Ms. Diamond, who is a transgender woman, said she was subjected to a strip search by a male officer. Two other officers watched from a few feet away, gawking as she spread her legs. Officers then placed Ms. Diamond in a cell for men, she said, where she cowered in the corner as other inmates heckled her and used the exposed toilet in her presence. When she expressed her discomfort to an officer, he replied, “You know you like it in there with all the men.”
“I felt totally voiceless,” Ms. Diamond, who is 37 and now divorced, said recently through tears. “Like I wasn’t even human. Like my safety didn’t even matter.”
Do you think the police acted inappropriately by putting Mr. Diamond, a man, in a holding cell with other men? Or do you think they should have respected his wishes and put him in a cell with women? What do you think could have happened if he were placed in a cell with women? ...
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