Puerto Rican activists call for investigation of three suspicious deaths possibly involving LGBTQ victims
metroweekly.comMetro.Police initially described the victim as a woman. But later, family members, friends, and local LGBTQ activists, including the group Puerto Rico Para Tod@s identified the victim as Samuel Edmund Damián Valentín, a transgender man.“One of the most serious problems we have with the Police and the Department of Justice is that they do not identify LGBTTIQ+ people in their incident reports,” Pedro Julio Serrano, a spokesperson for Puerto Rico Para Tod@s, said in a statement. “Almost every time an LGBTTIQ + person is murdered, it is the community itself who identifies it.
Police and Justice fail to comply with their own protocols [for dealing with LGBTTIQ victims] and it even seems that they want to ignore, make invisible, and minimize the.
