Influencer Nikita Dragun was launched from jail in Miami on Wednesday, in line with her consultant and Miami-Dade County legal justice information. Dragun, 26, was arrested Monday at a lodge and charged with felony assault of a police officer.
Dragun, who’s transgender, is well-known on-line for content material about her transition, magnificence and elegance. She has 27 million followers throughout YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.
Whereas within the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Heart in Miami, Dragun’s consultant stated she was positioned in a males’s unit.
“The scenario with Nikita, who’s legally feminine, being positioned in a males’s unit of a Florida jail is extraordinarily disturbing and harmful,” Jack Ketsoyan of Full Scope Public Relations stated in an announcement.
“This choice made by the Miami-Dade County Corrections Division instantly violates their protocol, which mandates that transgender inmates are labeled and housed based mostly on security wants and gender id,” Ketsoyan stated. “Nikita has been launched and is now secure. Thanks for respecting her privateness throughout this time.”
The Miami-Dade County Corrections Division didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Dragun was launched on recognizance, Miami-Dade County’s information stated, which means she didn’t need to put up bail. Her arraignment listening to in Miami is scheduled for Dec. 7.
The Miami-Dade Police Division beforehand offered NBC Information with an arrest affidavit from Monday that stated Dragun swung an open water bottle towards cops and a lodge safety guard, “inflicting the water to hit and spill on” the guard and an officer. Dragun was additionally charged with misdemeanor battery and misdemeanor disorderly conduct, the affidavit stated, after she threw water on a separate lodge staffer and walked across the lodge’s poor space “unclothed.”
A 2020 NBC Information investigation discovered that the majority transgender people are jailed with the gender they have been assigned at beginning, placing them susceptible to rape, sexual assault, and abuse.
Within the affidavit, the division stated Dragun “seems as a feminine however want to be acknowledged as a male.” The affidavit lists Dragun as male and makes use of the pronouns “he” and “him” within the report. In Dragun’s inmate profile from the correction middle, the place she was held, she can also be listed as male. When referring to herself on-line, Dragun has used “she” and “her” pronouns since starting her transition in 2015.
