Insider investigated five recent police killings of transgender people. None of the officers involved have been charged.
An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile.By May 5, 2020, Jayne Thompson had been hitchhiking across the desolate Southwestern desert for weeks. She was meandering along the edge of the highway near Moab, a dusty tourist destination in eastern Utah, when a local sheriff's deputy spotted her.
A Colorado state trooper named Jason Wade, a Marine veteran with a haircut to match, responded to the scene. As he later recounted to investigators, his request for backup, made while he was still on the way, was his first during his nine years as a trooper. Like his counterparts in Moab, Wade indicated that he, too, thought something was off.Insider database of transgender homicides, 2017 – 2021
An illustration of Jayne Thompson hangs on the wall of the Quarry bar in Bisbee, Arizona, where she used to work.Footage from Wade's dashboard camera captures a clanging sound that appears to have been her dagger falling to the ground.
From left to right: Roxsana Hernández, Johana Medina León, and Penélope Díaz Ramírez, who all died in custody.Among the police killings, we found patterns. Documents obtained by Insider show that in every case, officers quickly turned to use of force, with lethal consequences. All but one of those killed by the police were in the midst of mental health crises.
W. Carsten Andresen, a criminology professor at St. Edward's University who has studied homicides of transgender people, reviewed case documents for each of the police killings Insider identified over the past five years. He questioned why Wade immediately confronted Thompson upon arriving at the intersection. He noted that Thompson wasn't a threat to anyone when Wade arrived, and that the trooper was called to conduct a welfare check.
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