The incident has "chilling connotations" for survivors of sexual violence, a nonprofit director who had worked with the woman told the Los Angeles Times.

A trans woman, Linda Becerra Moran, who called the police for help after claiming she had been kidnapped, was shot dead by officers, video footage released by the Los Angeles Police Department appears to show.

Linda Becerra Moran, a 30-year-old trans woman in Los Angeles, called 911 to report that she was being held against her will in a motel room as a victim of sex trafficking. Police officers soon arrived at her motel in the Pacoima neighborhood of LA and began speaking to a distraught Becerra Moran.