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Black Trans Man Shot Dead By Policeman In Florida

A black trans man, Tony McDade, was fatally shot by a police officer in Tallahassee, Florida. This marks the third reported officer-involved shooting in Tallahassee in two months.

McDade, 38, was identified as a suspect of a reported stabbing and according to the police he had a handgun and “made a move consistent with using the firearm” against an officer, prompting the officer to shoot McDade.


News of McCade’s death come just a few days after protests fill Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was pinned to the ground by the police officer who murdered him. 

“When we say all Black lives matter, we mean ALL,” tweeted Black Visions Collective, a Minneapolis-based advocacy group working for racial justice. “Our hearts go out to Tony’s family and the Black people of Tallahassee.”

McCade was referred to by local news reports as a “female” although McCade used he/him pronouns on Facebook and local advocacy groups said he identified as a trans man. 

Following McDade's death, the National Black Justice Coalition said the “tragic incident should be a reminder that hate crimes against Black LGBTQ people" happen “too frequently” and “often without the national public outcry that our cis and/or heteronormative brothers and sisters receive.”

“It is important to highlight the too often ignored violence that members of our community face in addition to the discrimination we may experience because we are Black,” the coalition said in a statement.

As ‘NBC News’ reports, at least seven back, trans people have been murdered in Florida in the last two years. 


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