LOS ANGELES – A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) told the Los Angeles Blade Tuesday that detectives are investigating the stabbing attack on a transwoman at MacArthur Park Sunday as a hate crime.
The LAPD said that the victim, identified as Daniela Hernandez, was walking along Wilshire Blvd at MacArthur Park near South Park View at about 9p.m.
Sunday evening when she was accosted by a group of approximately five individuals who shouted derogatory anti-LGBTQ slurs as they attacked and stabbed her.
Hernandez was taken to a local hospital and is reported to be in stable condition Tuesday. Hernandez is a volunteer with the TransLatin@ Coalition which issued a statement Monday afternoon denouncing the attack. “We are
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