Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it.

MTK@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the article skips why, but it is actually extremely relevant…

  Cruz’s attorney claimed his client, a transgender woman, lashed out against Hodges because the 36-year-old postal worker had made a slur “about her gender identity.”
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  Cruz claimed that Hodges had ridiculed her with homophobic remarks and struck her several times before she pulled a knife and fatally stabbed him.
  She showed no remorse for her actions when interviewed by detectives at the 28th Precinct in Harlem.

  “I hope he’s maggot food,” Cruz told detectives, according to court documents. “I killed him laughing. Oh, well. I’ll piss on his grave.”.
  Hodges had struck Cruz at least three times during the deli fight before she stabbed him, she claimed.

  “I told him, ‘You come to me and I’ll kill you,’” Cruz told investigators. “No motherf—ers are going to put their hands on me no more.

  “He tried to mess with me because I’m trans, and I poked him up,” Cruz said.

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  • justastranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In a world where cis men have been deemed not guilty for murdering trans people just because they couldn’t tell until they got to the sex, there is no way I’d hold a trans person guilty of murder for defending themselves from an ongoing assault that very well could have escalated to a murder against her.

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    • damdy@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The story seems to be all over the place so it’s hard to piece together.

      Getting in a fight over who’s first for a sandwich though and her comments afterwards make her seem like she was looking for an opportunity for something like this.

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      • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        the dude started attacking her in a full on hate crime…
        if anyone starts attacking me in a sandwich shop, i am going for maximum damage… i’m not going to just hope they’ll stop attacking me, i will do my best to make it not possible for them to attack (although leaving is the first choice… if i can’t, i’m hurting them).
        she has zero remorse, but i don’t imagine it’s the first time she’s been attacked for being trans.

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• GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, you hardly ever hear Christian gunman kills X children at school.

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• RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The real story is “Mentally Ill Person with a History of Knife Crime Stabs Mail Carrier in Fight”

  The fact they are trans is less of a factor here than the fact they have a history of knife violence.

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  • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The real story is “Mentally Ill Person with a History of Knife Crime Stabs Mail Carrier in Fight”

    To the people who consider them being trans headline-worthy, “trans person” and “mentally-ill person” are synonyms.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If a WASP with a trump shrine has mental health issues and kills 4 people it’s mental health issues.

    If anyone not fitting the conservative mold, even if they have mental health issues, kills people it’s about their differences from the mold that come first. “Mental health” might get a one line mention at the bottom of the article.

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    • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Anyone murdering someone that shows no remorse for the death is probably not mentally sound regardless of who you are.

      This person has a history of knife crimes so it isn’t a stretch to presume mental illness is a factor.

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      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My comment was regarding how the press, the Post in particular, handle crimes if they can get more views by making it about lgbtq. I had no intent to offer an unqualified diagnosis of the person in the OP article.

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  • MTK@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s my point, gender has no relation to violent crimes, bringing it up in the headline is just bigoted

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    • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was kind of a factor in that the mailman called her a f****t and that would be misgendering but Im not going to suggest that was the Post’s motivation

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      • MTK@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Tgis might be an important detail to put in the post, but in the headline? It makes no sense past bigotry

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• musubibreakfast@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Violently homosexual man brutalizes innocent bystander in gay rage.

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You gotta mention that the innocent bystanders are straight, or else conservatives won’t know whether to feel sorry for them or be happy they were attacked.

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    • musubibreakfast@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Innocent God fearing all American red blooded heterosexual bystanders.

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