Predictably, Chelsea Manning’s Instagram account, on which she featured her first post-prison portrait yesterday, is littered with transphobic attacks.
Among those, as one Imgur user pointed out, are comments from Tyler Partin, a Patrolman First Class at the Summerville, South Carolina police department.
Said Partin, responding to a photo of Manning’s feet, shortly after she had been freed: “First straps of a traitorous c*nt you mean. I mean asshole…cause…you’re a dude.”
Here’s Partin on his own Instagram:
And on the Summerville PD staff page:
