➤ LINDA DOMINGUEZ, from p.18
the guidance developed in 2012
on police interactions with transgender
and gender nonconforming
people to the entire department
and to re-train offi cers in the 44th
precinct.
The department will also make
a $30,000 payment to Dominguez.
Her 2019 lawsuit named Offi cer
Megan Francis and two unidentifi
ed male offi cers along with the
NYPD and the City of New York
in connection with Dominguez’s
treatment.
A spokesperson for the NYCLU
said that beyond the training required
of 44th precinct offi cers, the
group is unaware of any additional
disciplinary or corrective action
taken against individual offi cers.
The NYPD did not immediately
respond to a question about what
action it may have taken regarding
the offi cers responsible at the 44th
precinct.
The lawsuit cited a 2017 report
from the city’s Department of Investigation
that found there were
“clear gaps in the NYPD’s implementation”
of the 2012 patrol guide
➤ RIC GRENELL, from p.18
any evidence for their disruptive,
democracy-undermining charges,
Grenell petulantly refused to answer
reporters’ questions.
During the election campaign,
Grenell worked on outreach efforts
to LGBTQ voters on behalf of the
Republican National Committee
while simultaneously serving as
special presidential envoy for the
Serbia and Kosovo Peace Negotiations.
His brief stint as DNI followed
a fi ery two-year tenure as US
ambassador to Germany, where he
immediately got off on the wrong
foot by telling Breitbart News, “I
absolutely want to empower other
conservatives throughout Europe,
other leaders” — an embarrassing
breach of diplomatic protocol He
was also a frequent guest on Tucker
Carlson’s show on Fox News, a
platform he used to launch broadsides
against the immigration policies
of German Chancellor Angela
Merkel, who had become the de
factoleader of the Free World in the
face of Trump’s abdication of that
role.
revisions and that only six of the
department’s 77 precincts had at
that point received training. Training,
the report found, was largely
limited to new recruits and to newly
promoted sergeants, lieutenants,
and captains.
In a written statement,
Dominguez, who is an active with
Make the Road New York regarding
the rights of trans and gender
nonconforming immigrants of
color, said, “I never want anyone
to go through the abuse I experienced
from people sworn to protect
me. This settlement is an important
step toward ending a culture
of impunity and discrimination
against trans people in the NYPD.
As an advocate for my community,
I couldn’t let this go.”
Donna Lieberman, the NYCLU’s
executive director, said, “Harassment
of transgender women of color
is far too frequent in the NYPD. As
the national reckoning with police
abuse and violence continues, this
settlement makes clear that the
NYPD has an obligation to treat
transgender women with dignity.
We will continue to hold the NYPD
accountable.”
Prior to his immersion in the
MAGA world, Grenell very briefl y
served as foreign policy spokesperson
for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential
campaign, until criticism
from social conservatives about a
gay man holding that post forced
his withdrawal after only 12 days.
Predictably, his allies in the Log
Cabin Republicans blamed both
the “far left” as well as the “far
right” — not so fi ne people on both
sides, presumably.
Unlike Romney, Trump saw
the usefulness of having a gay in
his ranks — apparently having
schooled himself in Grenell’s colorful
Twitter feed. In the years leading
up to 2012, Grenell had shown
himself consistently willing to take
on progressives, including those
in the LGBTQ world — often in
scathing and misogynist words. In
January of that year he tweeted,
“Rachel Maddow needs to take a
breath and put on a necklace.”
As he rose in prominence within
the right wing orbit, Grenell
scrubbed some of the more provocative
tweets from his page. He is
probably irate that he can’t scrub
Klippenstein’s, as well.
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