A female security guard working at a Washington, D.C. grocery store was arrested Monday afternoon for physically escorting a man out of the women’s restroom after he refused to leave because he identifies as a woman. The shopper — a young, African-American male who identified himself as Ebony Belcher to local news outlets — reportedly passed the security guard on his way into the women’s restroom at a Giant grocery store in Northeast D.C.
“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 the guard told her, “You guys cannot keep coming in here and using our women’s restroom. They did not pass the law yet.”
Washington Times – 4 hours ago
D.C. police have charged a security guard at a Giant supermarket with simple assault after a transgender woman accused her of physically removing her from the women’s bathroom. Ebony Belcher, 32, said she went to the Giant near Third and H streets in …
PinkNews – 3 hours ago
The charge came after a trans woman was kicked out of grocery store bathroom by security guard. Ebony Belcher was forcibly removed from a D.C. Giant grocery store bathroom by a transphobicsecurity guard, leading to the unidentified guard being charged …
Daily Caller – 6 hours ago
When he refused, the security guard had to physically escort him out of the women’s restroom. Upon leaving the store, Belcher called police to have the security guard arrested. D.C. police confirmed to NBC4 Washington that the woman was arrested and …
LGBTQ Nation – 2 hours ago
On Wednesday, a security guard was arrested for harassing a transgender woman who was trying to use the ladies’ room in a Washington D.C. grocery store. WRC-TV reports that the guard, whose name has not been released, was charged with simple …
DCist.com – 2 hours ago
D.C. Police arrested a security guard yesterday at a Giant Grocery store after she assaulted a woman. Ebony Belcher, a transgender woman, told NBC4 that the incident occurred when she was trying to use the women’s restroom at the store at H and 3rd …
ABC News – 5 hours ago
The signage outside this giant grocery store on H street in northeast Washington says welcome. But it’s alleged that a security guard working here did not think a transgender woman was welcome to use the ladies room. He 7 NEWS has confirmed that a …
Towleroad – 2 hours ago
A security guard at a Washington, D.C. grocery store was arrested after assaulting and ejecting a transgender woman from the store’s women’s bathroom. Police documents list the incident as a suspected hate crime. giant Ebony Belcher, 32, says she was …
Lifesite – 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 19, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – A female security guard has been arrested and faces being charged with a potential hate crime for removing a biological male from a women’s restroom in the nation’s capital. The unnamed guard asked …
LawNewz – 2 hours ago
Image via NBC4 A guard at a Washington, D.C. supermarket was charged with simple assault for allegedly physically removing a transgender woman from a women’s restroom on Wednesday, Washington’s NBC4 reported. Ebony Belcher claimed that she …
Advocate.com – 58 minutes ago
A security guard was arrested for assaulting a transgender woman in a grocery store bathroom Monday. Ebony Belcher was inside a wome’s restroom at a Giant in Washington, D.C., when the guard burst in, yelled at Belcher, and then kicked her out of the …
Daily Mail – 5 hours ago
Police have charged a security guard with assault after she allegedly pushed a transgender woman out of a store because she used the women’s bathroom. Ebony Belcher claims she was assaulted by the guard when she grabbed her arm and pushed her …
FOX News Radio (blog) – 3 hours ago
The unidentified guard was charged with simple assault after allegedly pushing the woman out of the bathroom inside the store, which is part of the Giant grocery chain. The company released a statement saying it could not comment on the incident as it …
Wonkette (satire) (blog) – 3 hours ago
That security guard lady seems nice. We bet she saw some asshole on TV talking about men in dresses coming into lady restrooms to do naughties to OUR WIVES AND DAUGHTERS, and thought, “Oh goodness, this is the greatest moment of my rent-a-cop …
NEWS10 ABC – 42 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) – Police have charged a security guard with assault after a transgender woman says the guard kicked her out of a women’s restroom in a Washington, D.C., supermarket. According to an incident report, a woman told police Wednesday …
The Grio – 1 hour ago
Ebony Belcher, a transgender D.C. woman, says that she was forced out of a women’s restroom by a security guard at a Giants grocery store. According to a WRC-TV report, Belcher was at the grocery store when she asked an employee where the bathrooms …
WJLA – 1 hour ago
Blecher says the security guard also said, “We are sick of you guys coming in here. Get out.” Blecher says she left the stall, washed her hands, and left the bathroom. That’s when Blecher says the security guard grabbed her arm and then shoved her out …
Peacock Panache – 4 hours ago
An arrest was made in Washington, D.C. at a Giant grocery store after a security guard assaulted a transgender woman attempting to use the women’s bathroom. The incident follows weeks of transphobic sentiment across the nation paired with egregiously …
Washington Times – 3 hours ago
A female security guard at a grocery store has been charged with assault after confronting a transgender woman in a women’s restroom and kicking her out of the store. The incident took place at a Giant grocery store in northeast D.C., when transgender …
TPM – 4 hours ago
Police in northeast Washington, D.C. charged a security guard with assault on Wednesday after she physically forced a transgender woman out of a grocery store women’s bathroom, local TV station WRC reported. Ebony Belcher, 32, told the news outlet that …
Breitbart News – 1 hour ago
A report by NBC Washington says that a security guard at a Giant grocery store in Washington D.C. has been charged with simple assault after a transgender woman said he forced her out of the women’s restroom.
NewNowNext – 3 hours ago
A female guard overhearing the conversation, came into the restroom after Belcher and forced her to leave. “She opened the door and came in and started calling me derogatory names,” Belcher told NBC 4, adding that the unnamed guard told her, “You guys …
Autostraddle – 1 hour ago
Ebony Belcher, a Black trans woman, just needed to use the restroom at her local Giant grocery store in Washington DC, but a security guard followed her in, told her to get out, “grabbed her and pushed her out of the store.” Belcher said the guard told …
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