Attack Prompts Call For Action

Jacina Carla Scamahorn, a transgender woman who was punched and kicked in the face by two men at Boots Bakery last week, spoke at Monday night’s Spokane City Council meeting. (SR photo: Colin Mulvany)

An assault on a transgender woman at Boots Bakery Friday night has led to calls for better training of Spokane police as an impassioned crowd urged the City Council to take action. Two men punched and kicked Jacina Carla Scamahorn in the face, breaking several bones in her face. The attack by the men who reportedly had been drinking at Zola, a bar next door to the bakery along West Main Avenue, and two servers said they witnessed the attack. Scamahorn said the police who responded to the assault call were disrespectful, referring to her as a man over the objections of Boots employees. “Staff tried to correct them, and they basically told them to shut up,” she said. Scamahorn is homeless; she was eating food that a Boots employee had given her before the attack/ Rachel Alexander , SR. More here.

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