#transgender-violence

#transgender-violence

Police in Arlington, Texas have arrested a suspect in the 2021 murder of a local Black transgender woman, Kier Soloman. Arthur Morris Jr, 25, has been charged with aggravated robbery and one count of murder after a four-years-long investigation, the Arlington Police Department announced in a statement Wednesday. Morris is already in the custody of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, serving a seven-year prison sentence for an unrelated aggravated robbery conviction.

It's definitely something worth looking into and I think anyone who denies that at this point is being wilfully ignorant. The administration is taking it seriously, all causes of violence, and why these people would be driven to such evil and such hatred, and there's probably many answers to that question. The administration is focused on all of them. For individual cases, of course the FBI and the Department of Justice are leading those.

Transgender persons are a vulnerable segment of society and we must all give them dignity and respect.

He later changed his story and admitted knowing and shooting the victim, but claimed he did so after discovering she was a trans woman.