A Trans Woman Was Charged With 'False Personation' for Giving the NYPD Her Real Name

While in custody, officers cuffed Linda Dominguez to her cell using pink handcuffs and repeatedly called her by her old first name. On her way home from the bus stop on a spring night in the Bronx last year, Linda Dominguez cut across a park because it was the most direct route to her apartment. Even though others leaving the bus were also crossing the park, three officers from the New York City Police Department singled out and arrested Linda, a Latina transgender woman, and took her to the precinct. Linda, who doesn’t speak English, had no idea why the police had stopped her or what they were arresting her for. While it is technically “criminal trespass” to cross through a park after closing hours, the NYPD’s enforcement of that crime and other low-level offenses is overwhelmingly and disproportionately targeted at Black and Latinx people like Linda. In the precinct, an officer spoke to her in Spanish, and she explained that she was a transgender…

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