Demonstrators in Manila protesting President Rodrigo Duterte's decision to pardon a U.S. Marine who was convicted of killing a transgender woman. (Ted Aljibe/Agence-France Presse - Getty Images)
He Killed a Transgender Woman in the Philippines. Why Was He Freed?
We broke the news that the U.S. military spent $500K defending a U.S. Marine who murdered a trans woman in the Philippines. The New York Times featured the piece in its Morning Briefing Newsletter (by Corinne Redfern for New York Times Magazine).