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August 23, 2017

St. Louis: Black Transgender Woman Kiwi Herring Killed by Police
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And in St. Louis, Missouri, friends and family held a candlelight vigil
Tuesday evening for Kiwi Herring, an African American transgender woman
who was killed by a St. Louis police officer. Relatives say the police
officer shot Herring earlier on Tuesday while responding to a dispute
between Herring and her neighbors. On Tuesday night, mourners criticized
the police for misgendering Herring in the police report, and disputed
the police's claims that she had attacked an officer with a knife.


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