First federal trial for hate crime based on gender identity starts over trans womanâs killing

The first federal trial in a gender identity-based hate crime begins Tuesday in South Carolina, where a man is accused of killing a Black transgender woman and fleeing to New York. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that in August 2019, Daqua Ramek Ritter lured a woman, referred to in court documents as Dime Do, […]