Say Her Name!!! Say Mya Hall.
Crenshaw et al. ‘15 (Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Andrea J. Ritchie, Rachel Anspach, Rachel Gilmer & Luke Harris, Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women, 2015. https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/3226) // 7/8/24- amya!!
Mya Hall was a Black transgender woman killed by National Security Agency (NSA) police just weeks before Freddie Gray’s case garnered national headlines. Alleged to be driving a stolen car, she took a wrong turn onto NSA property and was shot to death by officers after the car crashed into the security gate and a police cruiser. No effort to use nonlethal force was made even though there was no threat to the facility, and no one in the vehicle was armed. Friends remembered Hall as a kind and caring woman struggling to make ends meet in the face of entrenched structural discrimination against Black transgender women.14