Landmark transwoman’s murder trial set to begin
(Greeley, Colorado) Jury selection will begin Tuesday in the trial of a 31-year-old man accused of killing Angie Zapata, a 20-year-old transwoman.
Allen Ray Andrade is charged with murder as a hate crime – the first time the state’s hate crime law has been applied in a case involving a transgendered …
Trial begins for cops accused of beating gay man
(Chicago, Illinois) Jury selection began in a federal lawsuit against two Chicago police officers accused of beating a gay man.
Alexander Ruppert claims that officers Vincent Torres and Kent Pemberton beat him and denied him his civil rights solely because of his sexuality in a 2006 altercation.
Ruppert, 37, says he was …
