"History made": Nevada pageant winner to become 1st openly transgender Miss USA contestant
30 June 2021
Kataluna Enriquez has opened up on what it means to her that she'll be the first openly transgender woman to compete in the Miss USA pageant.
Driving the news: Enriquez beat 21 other contestants days out from the end of Pride month to become the newly crowned Miss Nevada USA, and she's using the platform to raise awareness for the transgender community ahead of November's national pageant.
What she's saying: "I didn’t have the easiest journey in life. It was a struggle for a moment. I struggled with physical and sexual abuse. I struggled with mental health. I didn’t have much growing up. I didn’t have support," Enriquez said, per KVVU-TV.
- "But I’m still able to thrive, and I'm still able to survive and become a trailblazer for many."
- Enriquez wrote in an Instagram post after being crowned Sunday: "My community, you are always in my heart. My win is our win. We just made history. Happy pride."
Transcripts show George Floyd told police "I can't breathe" over 20 times
Section2Newly released transcripts of bodycam footage from the Minneapolis Police Department show that George Floyd told officers he could not breathe more than 20 times in the moments leading up to his death.
Why it matters: Floyd's killing sparked a national wave of Black Lives Matter protests and an ongoing reckoning over systemic racism in the United States. The transcripts "offer one the most thorough and dramatic accounts" before Floyd's death, The New York Times writes.
The state of play: The transcripts were released as former officer Thomas Lane seeks to have the charges that he aided in Floyd's death thrown out in court, per the Times. He is one of four officers who have been charged.
- The filings also include a 60-page transcript of an interview with Lane. He said he "felt maybe that something was going on" when asked if he believed that Floyd was having a medical emergency at the time.
What the transcripts say:
- Floyd told the officers he was claustrophobic as they tried to get him into the squad car.
- The transcripts also show Floyd saying, "Momma, I love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead."
- Former officer Derek Chauvin, who had his knee on Floyd's neck for over eight minutes, told Floyd, "Then stop talking, stop yelling, it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk."
Read the transcripts via DocumentCloud.