“We understand the impact violence has on all our communities and we understand some acts of violence bring about legitimate concerns of whether the incident was motivated by hate,” said the APD. She was proud of who she was because she came from a loving, accepting family.”Ītlanta police say they are now investigating whether the deaths of Koko Da Doll and two transgender women should be considered hate crimes. Because if she was ashamed of it, she would have never did the documentary. “I feel like she wanted to get her story out,” her sister Kilya Williams told Fox 5. She gained notoriety from her appearance in the hit 2023 Sundance Film Festival documentary Kokomo City, where she gave the audience an inside look into the life of a transgender woman and the dangers for Black transgender sex workers. “We were honored to have her at the Festival this year with KOKOMO CITY, where she reminded Black trans women, ‘we can do anything, we can be whatever we want to be.’ It is a tragic loss.” “We are saddened to hear about the death of Rasheeda Williams aka Koko Da Doll,” Sundance wrote in a statement. She had been shot at least once, and she was later pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. On April 18, Williams was found unconscious by police near an intersection in southwest Atlanta.
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