A D.C. security guard assaults a transgender woman after she went into a women’s restroom. https://t.co/phZqdgjMsS pic.twitter.com/p6AsGhmsYb

— DCist (@DCist) May 19, 2016

D.C. Police arrested a security guard yesterday at a Giant Grocery store after she assaulted a woman. Ebony Belcher, a transgender woman, told NBC4 that the incident occurred when she was trying to use the women’s restroom at the store at H and 3rd Streets NE.
“She opened the door and came in and started calling me derogatory names,” Belcher said to NBC, who called the police to file a report. She also said guard also told her, “You guys cannot keep coming in here and using our women’s restroom. They did not pass the law yet,” Belcher continued.