Victoria Schneider account of police abuse

This Item contains potentially sensitive content related to sexual assault, transphobic violence, and hate crimes. This document is a recounting of Victoria Schneider's abuse at the hands of San Francisco police. She explains how she was discriminated against, belittled, groped, touched without consent, and subjected to obscene comments about her body during an arrest for doing sex work. Schneider sued the city over this abuse and won. This item comes from the Victoria Schneider papers at the GLBT Historical Society.

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Identifier: 8p58pd430
Collection: Victoria Schneider Papers
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
Creator(s): Schneider, Victoria
Date Created: circa 1997
Genre: Documents
Subject(s): Victoria Schneider
Topic(s): Gender expression
Intersex people
Law
LGBT activism
LGBTQ+ activists
LGBTQ+ communities
LGBTQ+ people
Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people
Police interactions with LGBTQ+ people
Political activists
Sexual minority activists
Social movements
Resource Type: Text
Language: English
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