In photos: Stanford beats Arizona to win first NCAA women's basketball title in 29 years
05 April 2021
The Stanford Cardinal defeated the Arizona Wildcats 54-53 in the women's NCAA final Sunday night to win their first title since 1992.
Of note: It's the first time the two women's college teams from the Pac-12 had faced each other in the national basketball championship final.
The moment our dreams came true.#GoStanfordpic.twitter.com/k7e5oLPDum
— Stanford Women’s Basketball (@StanfordWBB) April 5, 2021
Stanford Cardinal players celebrate with the trophy after they defeated the Arizona Wildcats. Photo: C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images
Stanford Cardinal fans celebrate their team's win. Photo: Ben Solomon/NCAA Photos via Getty Images
Stanford #10 Alyssa Jerome pressures Arizona's #32 Lauren Ware during the game. Photo: Elsa/Getty Images
Cate Reese, #25 of Arizona, and Cameron Brink, #22 of Stanford, tip off for the start of the championship game. Photo: Ben Solomon/NCAA Photos via Getty Images
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.