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CeCe McDonald
1989–
United States
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CeCe McDonald (; born May 26, 1989) is an American transgender activist convicted of second-degree manslaughter in the 2011 stabbing death of 47-year-old Dean Alvin Schmitz. McDonald killed Schmitz during an altercation outside Schooner Tavern in South Minneapolis, which began with all three of the group Schmitz was part of shouting racist and transphobic epithets at McDonald (a Black trans woman) and her friends. The confrontation escalated into a fistfight after Schmitz's ex-girlfriend Molly Flaherty smashed a glass in McDonald's face, cutting her.
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