Tag: New Mexico
Bikers who burned rubber on a rainbow crosswalk could face hate crime charges
Videos appeared online showing bikers defacing rainbow crosswalks in Albuquerque that were painted for Pride Month. The bikers burned rubber and left skid marks on the crosswalk. One of the bikers even popped a tire while vandalizing the crosswalk.
The city paid $30,000 to install the crosswalks this year, three times the cost of plain white crosswalks.
Related: Rainbow crosswalk vandalized with swastikas in gay village
“I can’t believe we can’t have anything nice,” resident Melvin Hanson told NBC4.
“To the vandals, I hope...
A second transgender woman held by ICE for weeks has died & they’re denying...
A transgender woman who came to the U.S. seeking asylum has died after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) held her in custody for six weeks.
Johana Medina Leon, 25, was came to the U.S. from El Salvador, waiting three months in Juarez, Mexico, before being allowed in the U.S. Friends told NBC News that she was seeking asylum to escape violence as a transgender woman.
Medina Leon was held in ICE custody since April and on May 18 she received a...
