After watching the film, “Free CeCe!”, I saw \u00a0how gender, race, and sexuality of a person affects how they are treated in the criminal justice system.\u00a0McDonald was arrested and then charged with second-degree intentional murder. She argued it was self defense which I agree with. In this case, CeCe McDonalds was harassed and physically harmed by Schmitz. Although there was clear evidence that McDonald had been acting in self defense the court decides otherwise. \u00a0Imagine having to live in a world where you constantly have to feel like your life is at risk, not only the risk of being African American but also being a transgender African American woman can you really put all the responsibility of this incident on CeCe McDonald? On the night of June 5, 2011 CeCe McDonald was walking with four friends while a group of about four white people began harassing her and her friends. While making several degrading remarks to CeCe they began to take it a step further by approaching her and hitting her in the face with a glass of alcohol. After being called racial slurs like “nigger” and other disrespectful remarks being made like “faggot” and a physical assault CeCe McDonald, she still tried to retrieve from the situation as she was in fear for her life but yet McDonald ends up being the only one who had to serve time for second degree murder as a result of the incidents that took place this night. Any reasonable person can see the unfair treatment of CeCe McDonald based on her gender race . Although McDonald was the only person who was responsible for the harm that caused a persons death she was also the person who was verbally and physically assaulted before the death took place. CeCe McDonald was obviously targeted and the criminal justice system didn’t do anything to address that which is the original problem here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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