Say his name: Tony McDade
, McDade is the twelfth transgender or non-conforming person to be fatally shot or killed in 2020 alone. “The Human Rights Campaign and the entire transgender and non-binary community demand accountability and answers for Tony’s death — and countless violent deaths of trans people, Black people and, disproportionately, Black transgender people.
A GoFundMe set up for McDade’s mother Wanda has raised more than $97,000 at the time of this writing, far exceeding its initial $25,000 goal. In a statement, the director of the National Black Justice Coalition, David J. Johns, wrote, “We don’t know a lot of the details around Tony’s death, or how police became involved. We do know that Tony should not have been killed.
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