Summary

Two transgender women, Dahlia and Jess, were attacked at a Minneapolis rail station, with onlookers cheering their assailants instead of helping.

After confronting a man yelling transphobic slurs, the situation escalated into a violent assault involving four or five others, leaving both women unconscious.

Advocates attribute the rise in anti-trans violence to emboldened transphobia fueled by misinformation and political rhetoric, including Donald Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ policies.

The local trans community is responding with solidarity rallies, self-defense classes, and firearm training to prepare for a potential increase in attacks.

Police are investigating, but no arrests have been made.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 hours ago

    Jesus, thats my worst nightmare.

    Onlookers aren’t just afraid to step-in, but actually all cheering for the oppressor.

    • @[email protected]
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      If hell was real maybe they’d re-live that moment and a subsequent moment of them all being hanged in the town square with everyone cheering for them to die for the rest of eternity.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 hours ago

      This is strikingly similar to how Jews were treated in pre-war germany

      Time to learn from history and not give in easily

    • @SupraMario
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      Surprised you’re not being downvoted to oblivion with this comment.

      • @Duamerthrax
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        Regardless of their politician position, Lemmy users aren’t exactly know for being passive push overs. Those types stayed on Reddit.

        • @SupraMario
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          -121 minutes ago

          I’m slightly confused with this comment. Anything pro2a on lemmy gets massively downvoted and or removed. Lemmy is filled with antigun people. Hell look at my comment on this, people probably have me tagged as a gun nut and automatically downvote me. Not that I give a shit, but it shows how ignorant they are.

          Lemmy users are most definitely passive pushovers when it comes to defense.

          • @Duamerthrax
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            No, people don’t want to be banned or tracked for making certain types of statements that might be in violation of ToS(or local laws), so they dance around what they actually mean.

  • @[email protected]
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    206 hours ago

    My live reaction:

    Crowd cheered as two transgender women…

    :D

    …were attacked in Minneapolis

    D:

    I guess its my fault for being even slightly optimistic.

    • @4grams
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      If the last few weeks hasn’t beaten the optimism out of you, please tell me which cave you are hiding in so I can come join you.

  • @[email protected]
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    I hope the people who beat them and those who cheered all live a long, miserable life full of their own loneliness, sorrow, and suffering. I hope that they die alone with nobody around them to care for or support them. And I hope to someday piss on their graves.

    • soma
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      I’d rather they come to learn compassion and tolerance. So hatred and violence can stop.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’d prefer a short, agonizing one for them, personally. Ever heard of the snuff film movie hostel?

        • @ripcord
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          What in the world would the benefit of not “letting them off the hook” be…?

          • shuzuko
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            Schadenfreude/revenge porn.

            Not a great benefit but most humans like to indulge in it from time to time 🤷🏻‍♀️

            But in the long run it would be better for marginalized communities if the assholes all just disappeared immediately so while the schadenfreude would be delectable it’s probably not worth it.

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    I thought Minneapolis was one of the more enlightened places in the USA. But I guess they also have these violent bigots and murderous racist cops.

    • ditty
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      61 hour ago

      This is not the first instance of transgender women getting attacked at MPLS public transit stations either. There was another such attack in the last few years at a MPLS bus station a couple miles south of my place.

    • @bitchkat
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      There are still chucklefucks here. Just less than other places.

    • Flying Squid
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      I thought Minneapolis was one of the more enlightened places in the USA.

      The sad part is… it is.

    • @[email protected]
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      35 hours ago

      Mass immigration from certain very “unenlightened” areas may have ruined that forever, and also brought in an ideology that is extremely hostile to LGBT people and liberal values.

    • @Botzo
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      I think you’ll find the same in San Francisco, Portland, and New York.

      Shitheads everywhere.

    • Chozo
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      This is what worries me when my trans friends tell me they don’t want to carry a weapon. They often say they live in a safe city, that they don’t feel there’s any danger being “out” in public where they live. And then stories like this happen.

      I don’t think there are safe cities anymore. We saw attacks against LGBT communities rise under Trump once already, and we’re already seeing them popping up again before he’s even back in office. I really wish more trans people were open to the idea of carrying something to protect themselves with; even a knife of pepper spray is better than nothing. Don’t go without a fight.

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        I thought about going to the gas station to get pizza for games night (don’t judge, we have no other decent pizza place) in girl clothes once. I didn’t even get out of my driveway before realizing how insanely awful that idea was without a gun in a quick draw holster.

  • Admiral Patrick
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    JFC I do not want to live in this reality.

    Edit: I’ve played Infinite at least 10 times, and I still have no idea what happens if you throw the ball at the couple. I feel like if you press the default action button there, you should be put on a list.

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      Off topic and mild spoilers: this is one of the scenes that show that your choices don’t really matter (just like the coin toss and which pendant you want Elizabeth to wear). Regardless of your decision, the person next to Booker will grab his hand and point out his tattoo.

    • @Grimy
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      Dahlia and Jess were leaving the station when a man started yelling transphobic slurs at them, Amber Muhm, a rally organizer who spoke to both of them after the incident, told The Independent. Jess asked him to stop talking to them that way, prompting the man to “sucker punch” her. Dahlia then struck the man with her cane, Muhm said.

      Although the man was “knocked out,” four or five other people ran up and began to “mercilessly beat” the two transgender women, Muhm said.

      “People were cheering the attackers on,” Muhm said. Both of them were knocked unconscious and Dahlia was left with a broken nose while Jess suffered “multiple contusions” on her ribs

      Because you clearly didn’t actually read it.

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          Which part makes you think the man yelling insults to strangers and then sucker punching them when called out on it makes him the victim?

          Or maybe it’s the five guys that ground pounded them, breaking a nose and ribs, that are the victims.

          Snowflake behavior. It’s crazy how triggered people get from a strangers sexuality, even as to defend gratuitous violence online.

        • @[email protected]
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          Try to actually think about what you read instead of just consuming it blindly.

          …Ogmios yelled into the mirror, knowing full well they were completely wrong.

    • TheTechnician27
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      The single person who upvoted this comment didn’t make it four paragraphs into the article. The person who wrote it is a disgusting fucking liar.

    • @[email protected]
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      You left out and twisted just enough information to fit your false narrative. Get a life, weirdo.

    • Chozo
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      What exactly is it that you think you’re trying to say?

        • Chozo
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          Jess asked him to stop talking to them that way, prompting the man to “sucker punch” her. Dahlia then struck the man with her cane, Muhm said.

          Yeah, that’s some real “spin”, right there.

        • hope
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          It sounds like you’re just trying to be contrarian? Do you have any reason whatsoever to not believe the article? I understand doubting the article, but it seems you’ve just decided that it is exactly the opposite of the truth, which I don’t get.

          • Ogmios
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            The reason is that the ‘journalist’ uses intense emotional language to highlight only one side of the story, while completely glossing over the fact that their ‘victim’ literally knocked someone out with a weapon. Any rational person ought to at least raise an eyebrow while they consider what could have provoked bystanders to jump in, when presented with that fact.

            It’s really obvious rage bait.

            • @Warl0k3
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              What emotional lanuage do you mean, “sucker punched” maybe? Thats a pretty damn neutral recounting, come tf on.

                • @Viking_Hippie
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                  Turns out that describing hate crimes objectively inherently uses “leading language” since it’s a societal problem that only bigots don’t mind.

                  And thinking that The Independent, a well-respected broadsheet, is a tabloid is quite indicative of exactly how much you know about anything you’re talking about 🙄