YourNabe.com – By Jeremy Walsh
Activists push DA Brown to prosecute Woodside men in transgender attack
Leslie Mora, a transgender woman living in Jackson Heights, says she was the victim of a hate crime when two men attacked her last month.
Elected officials and nonprofits are rallying behind a transgender Jackson Heights woman who was severely beaten by a pair of men in Woodside last month after the Queens district attorney’s office did not initially categorize the attack as a hate crime.