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A transgender woman named Deairra Michelle Venable who was arrested on Monday amid chaos that erupted in Baltimore was released Friday, according to her lawyer, four days after she was locked up.
Venable, whose identification lists her as a female, was initially booked as such before officials at Central Booking in Baltimore discovered she had been assigned male at birth. She was then transferred to a holding cell with about a dozen men, and forced to remove her bra, which has an underwire.“It’s been hell for her,” Astrid Munn, the lawyer representing Venable, told Mashable. “She asked to have the ‘she’ pronoun, but the commissioner refused.”
The woman’s bail was originally set at $75,000, though she was charged with fourth-degree burglary, a misdemeanor. Her bail was later bumped up to $100,000.Venable was recording video of police activity around her when she was swept up in a mass arrest while people around her looted an apparel store, Munn said.
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CNN has obtained a video, taken shortly after Michael Brown was shot, that shows a contractor who had been working near the shooting site describing the incident in a manner that matches other eyewitness testimony—raising his arms and shouting “man, he was going like this,” as if to suggest that Brown had adopted a posture of surrender before he died.
Two contractors are shown in the video, and both have spoken to CNN; one also spoke previously to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and one to Fox affiliate KTVI. The individual who is shouting and raising his arms in in the video told CNN that “the cop didn’t say get on the ground. He just kept shooting.” The other said that he saw officer Darren Wilson “chasing” Brown, that Wilson fired a shot at Brown while Brown’s back was turned, and that Brown raised his hands before he died, though it’s not clear at what point the witness saw Brown’s hands raised. (For what it’s worth, it seems like the worker who spoke to KTVI is the one wearing a pink shirt in the video and that the worker who spoke to the Post-Dispatch is wearing a green shirt.)
The CNN account notes that the workers are not from Ferguson and did not know the Brown family—a detail that could increase their perceived objectivity vis a vis witnesses from Brown’s neighborhood.
33 Days since Mike Brown’s murder, and his killer, Darren Wilson, is still a free man. How much more evidence is needed to make a fucking arrest?! #farfromover #staywoke #ArrestDarrenWilson
Update on Ferguson
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