CommercialAppeal.com – By Wendi C. Thomas
When the videotape of a since-fired Memphis police officer beating a black transgender woman surfaced earlier this month, the outcry from the GLBT community (that’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender, for the unfamiliar) was swift and loud.
And it was the Women’s Action Coalition that brought together about 50 people last Monday in support of Duanna Johnson, who was beaten and sprayed with tear gas in February while in the booking area of the jail.