"Prosecutor Yessenia Manzo described the attack in court, alleging Karlow and the rest of the group "took [Holcepl] to the ground twice, punched her, kicked her, chased her down, left her with a swollen black eye, with fractured teeth and with a brain bleed, all because Andie is trans.""
"Holcepl testified in court that she will "carry this the rest of my life" and that she is filled with "frustration and anger and broken-heartedness and disappointment.""
"In a recorded call from jail, Karlow declared, "If I didn't hate trans people before, I do now, absolutely. I think that Trump should kill them all. Get them out of here. They're weird.""
Andre Karlow, a 40-year-old Seattle man with nine prior felony convictions, was sentenced to seven years in prison for participating in a violent attack on trans woman Andie Holcepl. The assault included verbal harassment using slurs and derogatory terms, followed by physical violence that left Holcepl with a swollen black eye, fractured teeth, and a brain bleed. A jury found Karlow guilty of an anti-trans hate crime. The defense argued the incident was not motivated by bias, but the prosecution presented evidence of Karlow's hostility toward trans people. The victim testified about lasting psychological trauma from the attack.
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