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.
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Court: $1.5M to transgender woman for ‘bogus’ cocaine arrest
