[Meadow Muffin]

"Released later in the day"?.....if that had been a straight, white male, who was not HIV positive, he would have still been in jail.....IMHO

[Vaquero]

thou shalt not bear falsies against thy neighbor.

[Brilliant]

"A transsexual woman..."



Isn't that a bit ambiguous?

[PetroniusMaximus]

Sounds possessed.

[Redcloak]

Tranie problems? I guess they should have gone to AAMCO instead of the hospital.

[Spok]

Isn't it interesting that the biggest news of this incident is that it involved a transexual. Political correctness has a way of dehumanizing and stereotyping everyone into its own discrete categories. Everyone is identified by a prefix that determines their moral worth, like black, hispanic, gay, HIV positive, conservative, Christian, Republican, white, etc. This prefix always telegraphs the slant the story will take or at least the emotions the story is intended to stir. To the left, you're not a person; you're a label, and that's the only value a life represents.

[Millee]

Although Facen had breasts and lived as a woman, the Sheriff's Department was treating her as a man because she had male genitalia

No, he had male genitalia.

[Grut]

Although Facen had breasts and lived as a woman, the Sheriff's Department was treating her as a man because she had male genitalia, Lt. Tom Bennett said.

That's about as severe an assault on a transexual's persona as you can make, roughly the equivalent of force-feeding pork to a devout Jew; no wonder she became violent. The cops should have known better.

[jjmcgo]

"told them she was HIV-positive and appeared to be cooperating, Sgt. Paul Robbins said."
Did Robbins call him a she? Did Empson call him a she.
The reporter would have you think so by putting she and "xxx said" in the same sentence.

[ClearCase_guy]

Facen [a naked transexual], who was "covered with blood from head to toe," opened the door for deputies, told them she was HIV-positive

At this point, I would say "Sorry to bother you" and quietly close the door. Guess I wouldn't make it as a paramedic.