Two Arrests Made after Transgender Influencers were Robbed and Beaten on Hollywood Boulevard

Last week, three transgender influencers––Eden the Doll, Jaslene White Rose, and Joslyn Flawless––were robbed, beaten, and chased down Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.

One of the men recorded the entire incident, posting it on his Instagram story. Eden found the video and shared it to her own story, which shows the men running after them, throwing rocks, and stealing their belongings. Onlookers can be seen in the video doing nothing to help.

On Instagram, Eden wrote: “The cops stopped, looked and kept driving… my heart sank, I thought this was it… More people kept walking past us. No one is stopping, no one is helping, no matter how much I begged.”

One man ran at Rose, hitting her over the head with a large object and leaving her unconscious. They assaulters laughed and made jokes about Rose being “dead.”

“This was the most traumatic thing that ever happened to me,” Rose said. “Not just the fact that I was hit by a grown man, but because there were so many men watching this happen to me and my friends. And we begged for someone to call the police, but they were too busy recording and laughing.”

Flawless also took to Instagram detailing the attack: “He held a crow bar to my face and threatened to kill me unless I stripped my shoes off and gave him my jewelry and all my processions [sic]. He said if I was trans he would kill me.”

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The Los Angeles Police Department classified the attack as a hate crime. They have arrested Carlton Callway and Willie Walker last Wednesday after being identified in the footage, CBS reported. Police are still searching for a third suspect, Davion Williams.

“When I saw the video, like anyone who has seen it who believes in human decency, to see this level of violence celebrated gleefully, so much so that the perpetrator himself posted on social media, is like a sucker punch to all of us who believe in civilized behavior,” L.A. City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell said.

As of July 14, 2020, the Human Rights Campaign recorded at least 21 killings of transgender or gender non-conforming people this year in the US, marking the most violent deaths in the transgender community since 2013, when the organization first began tracking them. However, the number is likely much higher due to underreporting.

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