Led by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, President Joe Biden’s administration earlier this week wanted all Americans to mourn the passing of more than two dozen transgender people who were allegedly killed this year because of their gender identity.
This was the core of Transgender Day of Remembrance on Monday.
But apparently, the White House forgot that three of those alleged “victims” were actually criminals killed while committing a crime.
According to The Federalist on Tuesday, at least three of the 26 transgender Americans named by the Biden administration as deserving to be memorialized “were shot and killed while committing a crime or tangling with law enforcement.”
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The White House glossed over that part, if it in fact knew, in its official statement about the event.
“We must never be silent in the face of hate,” the White House stated. “As we mourn the loss of transgender Americans taken too soon this year, we must also recommit ourselves to never stop fighting until all Americans can live free from discrimination.”
During a subsequent press briefing that day, Jean-Pierre, who herself is lesbian, asserted that these “victims are disproportionately black women and women of color.”
“No one should face violence or live in fear or be discriminated against simply for being themselves,” she added.
As The Federalist noted, the Biden administration wanted Americans to believe these deaths “were tragedies linked to their gender identity,” and even some of their families referred to them as dying by “targeted shootings.”
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“But,” The Federalist added, “none of their accounts or the reports on their loved one’s death produced a direct link between the fatal violence and the transphobia the White House claims has gripped the nation.”
“While several of the 26 people listed died in hit-and-runs, shootings, and domestic violence that plague cities all across the U.S., at least three were killed while committing acts of violence.”
One of them was leftist activist Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran, who was shot and killed by police during a raid in Georgia in January.
Teran was one of several protesters fighting the development of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, known locally as Cop City. Cops killed him after he opened fire on them, injuring a state trooper, as they sought to clear the makeshift protest camp at the site.
Another supposed victim was Banko Brown, a woman shot and killed by a security guard at a San Francisco Walgreens last April. Brown was reportedly shoplifting from the store and repeatedly threatened to stab the guard as he prevented her from leaving the store.
The third person identified by The Federalist as a faux victim was DéVonnie J’Rae Johnson, a homeless man who in August walked into a Ralph’s grocery store in Los Angeles. Johnson got into an altercation with a security guard and, during the fight, grabbed a fire extinguisher and a screwdriver. The security guard shot and killed Johnson.
Prosecutors found no reason or evidence to charge either the police or the security guards in those cases.
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The Federalist noted that at least the White House declined to add to its list Audrey Hale, a woman who identified as a man and who shot and killed three children and three staff at a Christian school in Nashville. Police also killed Hale.
Citing that massacre, Jean-Pierre unbelievably argued to reporters at the time that transgender Americans were the ones “under attack right now.”
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