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Because a lot of times they will be abused. there is a lot of homosexual inmates that can fool you. they are gender bending and it's hard to tell. >> my name is tasha. my last name is swain. >> 37-year-old bernard "tasha" swain was serving a nine-month sentence for a parole violation. >> how do you make money on the streets? >> prostitution and selling drugs. >> one of the other things that bernard did on occasion inside l.a. county jail is to put on beauty pageants. like a peacock, so he wanted to show off his feathers. >> you know the miss america pageant? we do them in here but we do them f...

Them disrespectively or in an abusive manner and no one believes that. we hear these stories but, unfortunately, we have not had the evidence to support it. >> thank you both for being here. tasha, our condolences. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> now, john crawford iii's death and that of 12-year-old tamir rice shot by a cleveland police officer as he held a pellet gun prompted what has become a series of protests by athletes with the black lives matter movement. yesterday cleveland browns wide receiver andrew hawkins responded to one union calling on him to apologize for a shirt he wore on sun...

What what happened here. >> thank you, anthony, and tasha, i'm sorry for your loss and i appreciate you telling us part of your story tonight. cleveland brown's receiver andrew hawkins worthies -- worthies shirt during the introduction and the head of the police patrolmen's soaks is expecting an apology. you pay your auto insurance premium every month on the dot. you're like the poster child for paying on time. and then one day you tap the bumper of a station wagon. no big deal... until your insurance company jacks up your rates. you freak out. what good is having insurance if you get punished...

Enforcement got ahold of her, until the very end, she was treated as if she was a suspect, a second degree or less citizen. she wasn't treated with any kind of respect. they had made a decision that john crawford had done something wrong, that there was either some plan or some conspiracy to commit some type of crime. they were accusatory from the very beginning. no consideration for her. >> right. let me ask you -- tasha, has anyone affiliated with the police department apologized to you or explained their perspective on this? >> no. it's just gotten worse since the incident. >> the other que...

>> you've had no -- >> no. none other than the incident, i haven't had any contact with them. >> finally, anthony, what is -- what does the family hope to get out of this lawsuit? what changes do you hope to see? >> i think this discussion is really important. it's affecting everyone in our country. and i think the way that people are treated in crisis situation, it has to be changed. i think that obviously law enforcement has a job to do, but, frankly, when many officers feel they can behave in a matter that solely is protective of themselves and not considering the ramifications of how it af...