U.S. Attorney Retains Hate Crime Listing in Stabbing of Trans Teen
The U.S. Attorney’s office has upheld the decision by Metro Transit Police to classify as a hate crime the July 30 stabbing of a 15-year-old transgender girl on board a Green Line Metro train near the Fort Totten Station.
In court papers filed on July 31, prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s office charged Reginald Anthony Klaiber, 24, of Greenbelt, Md., with assault with a dangerous weapon-bias related in connection with the stabbing incident.
“Such criminal act demonstrated the prejudice of Reginald Klaiber based on the actual or perceived gender identity and expression of [the victim],” one of the prosecutors states in a criminal complaint filed in D.C. Superior Court.
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