Guard Charged with Assault After Confronting Transgender Woman Using Women's Restroom, Police Say

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[QUOTE]D.C. Police have charged a security guard at a Giant grocery store with simple assault after a transgender woman said the guard forced her out of the women's restroom.

The guard, who has not been identified, is a special police officer at a Giant store near Third and H streets in northeast D.C.

Belcher, 32, said she went to the Giant with a friend to pick up a delivery from the Western Union.

While at the Giant, she asked a store employee to point her to the restroom and passed a female security officer standing in the hallway.

The officer came into the restroom and told her to get out, according to Belcher. "She opened the door and came in and started calling me derogatory names," Belcher said.

She said the officer put her hand on her shoulder and arm, grabbed her and pushed her out of the store.

Belcher said she suffers from Parkinson's disease and almost fell while the officer was shoving her[/QUOTE]

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[Sgt.Kickass]

This is deplorable.

[Sableye]

I do wonder if the NC law would protect against assault cases though

Like as shitty as it's written it leaves the whole thing to vigilantism which in of itself is not usually legal