In photos: Strong quake rocks Japan region hit by nuclear disaster 10 years ago
14 February 2021
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake on Saturday hit off the coast of Japan's Fukushima prefecture, injuring at least 120 people and causing widespread power outages, per Japanese broadcaster NHK.
The big picture: The Japan Meteorological Agency believes the quake was an aftershock from the deadly quake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear disaster at a Fukushima power plant on March 11, 2011.
An evacuated family rests at a shelter set up in a sports arena in Soma, Fukushima prefecture, on Feb. 14. Photo: STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images
An excavator at the landslide site on the Joban Expressway in Soma on Feb. 14. Photo: STR/Jiji Press/AFP via Getty Images
Screens display the suspension of operations of the Shinkansen bullet train in the Tohoku region at JR Tokyo Station in Tokyo on Feb. 14 in response to the quake. Photo: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images
Damaged buildings in Fukushima on Feb. 13, moments after the quake struck. Photo: Jiji Press/AFP via Getty Images
A Fukushima restaurant early Feb. 14. Photo: Jiji Press/AFP 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.