just UNFOLLOWED everybody >;-) not bringing this thing back just cleaning things up
Imaan Hammam & Aya Jones at Diane Von Furstenberg Spring/Summer 2016
Her name was Nizah Morris. She was a Black Trans Woman who was killed under mysterious circumstances and was last seen in Police Custody.
Something violent happened to Nizah Morris between the time police picked her up and when she was found bleeding and unconscious in the street.
Following Morris’ death, police and prosecutors hid critical information about what happened. Cops misreported Morris’ ride in official logs; the homicide squad did not accept the medical examiner’s determination that she had been killed; and the police department “lost” her homicide report for eight years. Meanwhile, the district attorney’s office refused to give police files to the civilian oversight board reviewing Morris’ case. When the DA finally turned over the files, it forced the board to sign a nondisclosure agreement that would keep what they found hidden forever.Nizah Morris was a kind of matron to younger transgender women in the community, Morris’ friend Deja Alvarez told The Daily Beast. Alvarez says Morris used her 30 years of experience as an “out” trans woman to nurture and empower the younger generation around her. “A lot of the younger girls in the trans community, Nizah was always so sweet to them,” Alvarez said.
Police were not sweet to Morris, though—her family was only notified of the tragedy after she died, with cops still referring to her as a man. “He’s dead,” a detective told Morris’ mother. He was later removed from the case for complaints of insensitivity. Morris had also been classified as a “John Doe” while she died, though she should have been known to one of the officers on scene because she had previously been arrested for prostitution.
Hospital records show that the hospital staff contacted police after Morris was dropped off by EMS because they believed Morris was an assault victim, and not someone who had been in an accident. Hospital staff also requested Morris’ name from police dispatch, which suggests that she was dropped off unidentified. 911 transmissions indicate the officers manipulated events.
#blacklivesmatter #blacktranslivesmatter #policebrutality
I drew a visual hair type classification guide. I thought I’d share it here. Mine is between 1b-1c.