A 55-year-old LGBTQ supportive straight woman says she intervened to help a transgender woman under attack by a “mob” of more than 20 young men who were punching the woman and yelling anti-transgender insults about 10:15 p.m.
Saturday, June 20, on the 1200 block of U Street, N.W. Andrea Earls, who lives near where the incident occurred, told the Washington Blade she witnessed the attack unfold as she was walking home from the 7-Eleven store at 12th and U Streets, N.W.
She said the attack took place on the sidewalk in front of Ben’s Chili Bowl restaurant at 1213 U Street, N.W. and extended to the sidewalk in front of an alley that separates Ben’s from the Lincoln Theatre. “I walked out tonight at the 7/11 at 12 and U,” Earls says in a