Court: $1.5M to transgender woman for 'bogus' cocaine arrest in Atlanta

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Ju’Zema Goldring’s lawsuit, filed in March 2018, said Atlanta police targeted her for a low-level jaywalking arrest on Oct. 10, 2015, because she “was apparently transgender and homeless.”

A Black transgender woman is due $1.5 million for the “seemingly bogus” cocaine trafficking charge which kept her jailed for months in 2015 after Atlanta police officers arrested her for allegedly jaywalking, a federal judge has ruled.

Judge William Ray II awarded the money to Ju’Zema Goldring on Thursday, two days after a jury found that officer Vladimir Henry should pay that amount, online federal district court records show.

“She spent nearly 6 months in the Fulton County jail based on this seemingly bogus charge,” Ray wrote.