South Carolina Man Convicted Of Killing A Black Transgender Woman, Making It The First Federal Hate Crime Trial Over Gender Identity

South Carolina Man Convicted Of Killing A Black Transgender Woman, Making It The First Federal Hate Crime Trial Over Gender Identity

Essence Magazine:

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated March 1, 2024

Last Friday, Daqua Lameek Ritter of South Carolina was convicted of the 2019 killing Dime Doe, a Black transgender woman. Jurors found Daqua Lameek Ritter guilty of a hate crime, in the “first federal hate crime trial over gender

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