I don't believe for a fraction of a second there was any confusion of any sort.
I suspect that she pulled a “do you know who I am?” and they looked at her rap sheet from years ago and decided to remind her exactly who she was.
But in the intervening decades, she really had cleaned up, become a lawyer, and been elected to office in her own country.
The diplomatic corps won't let this slide, and the screwballs at the jail will need new careers because the blue line can't cover this one.
Except that the cops said female and it was the doctor/nurse who said male.
“After a strip-search she was classified as a woman, but the jail doctor and nurse wrongly booked her as a man, claiming she was transgender with male genitalia.
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The decision went against the arresting officer who listed Pichardo as female and against a female officer strip search, where her private areas were examined.”
soo who’s looking for a new career?