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44 Sw. L. Rev. 553 (2014-2015)
You Can't Run from the Police: Developing a Feminist Criminology that Incorporates Black Transgender Women

handle is hein.journals/swulr44 and id is 567 raw text is: YOU CAN'T RUN FROM THE POLICE!: DEVELOPING A FEMINIST CRIMINOLOGY THAT INCORPORATES BLACK TRANSGENDER WOMEN Angela Irvine, Ph.D. BreakOUT! Members and Staff* INTRODUCTION BreakOUT! is a community-based organization in New Orleans that fights the criminalization of queer and transgender youth of color.' Here is an excerpt from their report, We Deserve Better:2 Lee-Lee is a young Black transgender woman who moved here for college and is a Sophomore at a local university. She is also a BreakOUT! member. In March 2014, Lee-Lee was leaving a BreakOUT! meeting at around 9:00 at night. Lee-Lee lives in a dormitory on her school campus and was walking back to her home. As I was walking down the street, I noticed a white car inching toward me. I moved toward the side of the road to let the car go by but the driver rolled his window down. I immediately noticed he was a police officer by his uniform and NOPD emblem on his shirt. He had on his uniform but was riding in an unmarked vehicle at the time. He looked at me and said something I didn't understand so I asked him to repeat himself. He said, What's your sexy ass doing out? Where are you going? I told him that I was heading to school and started walking again and he yelled, You're fine as F%$! I started walking a little more briskly. Usually, I ignore men that approach me like that but how do you interact with a man with authority? * Special thanks to Milan Nicole Sherry, Diamond D'Maree, Nathaniel Faulk, Shaena Johnson, Se'miyah Malac, Co'Bella Monroe, Lhundyn Palmer, Adore Scott, Wes Ware, and Kaya Williams, Jonathan Willis, and Derwin Wilright, Jr. 1. See We DESERVE BETTER: A REPORT ON POLICING IN NEw ORLEANS BY AND FOR QUEER AND TRANS YOUTH OF COLOR, BREAKOUT! 2 (2014), http://www.youthbreakout.org/ sites/g/files/gl89161/f/201410/WE%20DESERVE%20BETTER%20REPORT.pdf. 2. Id. at 14-15. 553

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