Actress Laverne Cox and a friend were attacked by an anti-transgender assailant in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park over the weekend.Cox and her friend, whom she did not name, were having a socially distanced walk in the park Saturday when they were approached by a man who “very aggressively” asked for the time, she recounted in an Instagram video.
After her friend answered, the man said, “Guy or girl?” and her friend said, “Fuck off.” Then the man started hitting Cox’s friend.
Cox got her phone out and dialed 911, and the attacker fled.Cox’s friend, apparently a cisgender man, recognized that she was the target of the attack and that the assailant wanted her to answer, she said.