Trans protester arrested at Pride wants charges dropped

Metro USA ^ | 6/22/2018 | Sam Newhouse

[simpson96]

A trans woman who made national news after she were arrested at Philly Pride for trying to burn a ‘pro-cop’ flag on June 10 wants all charges against her dropped and for Philadelphia police to stop providing security at the annual LGBT pride event.

The DA’s office previously dropped felony charges of causing or risking a catastrophe and attempted arson against ReeAnna Segin, 18, of Woodbine, NJ after “additional investigation,” she said. Segin remains charged and scheduled for trial on charges of possession of an instrument of crime and recklessly endangering another person.

Segin, a member of the Philly Socialist Alternative, said attempting to burn the flag was an act of First Amendment-protected free speech.

“Black Lives Matter exists to validate black people’s lives. But Blue Lives Matter only exists to invalidate black people’s lives,” she said at the rally.

Segin and supporters were highly critical of the fact that she were detained on $5,000 bail at Curran Fromhold Correctional Facility, and said she opposed the presence of police at Pride.

“If the police are only at Pride to protect us, why would she put trans women in men’s prisons?” she asked at the rally. “The police are an oppressive force and nothing more. We need to return Pride to its radical roots and make it a display of righteous queer anger.”

[John S Mosby]

One more example of Shapiro’s description of transgenderism as mental illness. They are 1) suicidal 2) get the change operation and are still clinically depressed because it is NOT a function of physicality, it is a function of arrested development— at a pre-teen age, unsocialized and really— baby like demands. Appalling.