A Decade After Pulse: The Quest for Accountability
Latino USA
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4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This June marks a decade since one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida.
“Sometimes when I close my eyes, I see when I was on the floor on [sic] that restroom,” Jorshua Hernández Carrión, a survivor of the shooting, told us.
Through an interview with Jorshua, and a review of the investigations, Latino USA unpacks the lack of accountability, and how we should honor Pulse victims and survivors. We also talk with Carl Charles, a trans attorney with Lambda Legal, about how violence against the LGBTQ+ community has taken new forms in laws and rhetoric.
Latino USA is the longest-running news and culture radio program in the U.S., centering Latino stories and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa.
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| 0:00.0 | Futuro. |
| 0:06.5 | In uptown New York City, |
| 0:09.4 | underdogs created a sound |
| 0:11.6 | that changed music forever. |
| 0:14.6 | And we called it salsa. |
| 0:16.5 | And one label captured that sound like no other. |
| 0:19.8 | Espania! |
| 0:21.0 | Banya Records. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Rosie Perez, and this is our thing, |
| 0:27.4 | the birth of salsa in Nueva York. |
| 0:30.1 | An original podcast from Futuro Studios. |
| 0:33.6 | Listen now wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:44.1 | Futuro. Listen now wherever you get your podcast. Ten years ago, on June 12th, a shooter killed 49 people and injured dozens of others at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. |
| 0:54.7 | It was one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. |
| 1:00.5 | It remains this country's deadliest attack against the LGBTQ plus community, |
| 1:06.6 | who were the majority of the victims, along with mostly Latinos and Latinas. |
| 1:13.0 | You know, I've heard a lot of conversation today about, is this terrorism? |
| 1:16.7 | Is it a hate crime? |
| 1:17.7 | No, I would say that it's both, without a doubt. |
| 1:20.9 | While ultimately the Pulse Massacre was not considered a hate crime by the FBI, |
| 1:27.0 | the fear and the sense of loss of safety |
| 1:29.5 | was immediate for the LGBT community across the country, |
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