Katie Neuner, front, marches with hundreds of community members for the Engage: Part One demonstration in Seattle. Neuner, who helped lead the chants, says, “2020 is the year of change — it’s the year that we move forward, the year the Black communities get what they deserve.” (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
Katie Neuner, front, marches with hundreds of community members for the Engage: Part One demonstration in Seattle. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)
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A monument for Confederate soldiers in Seattle’s Lake View Cemetery has been spray painted and toppled, as seen on Sunday July 5, 2020. It was built in 1926 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Granite for the monument was quarried and sent by train and steamship from Stone Mountain in Georgia, a site known for its Confederate memorial and ties with the Ku Klux Klan. 214427
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Two of the Woodland Park Zoo’s giraffes are the tallest land animals. Some grow to a height of 19-feet. This is in the African savanna habitat. reopens to the public at 25% capacity, Wednesday July 1, 2020 214372
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Michael Coy, manager of Ravenna Third Place Books, is retiring from his long career in the Seattle book business.
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Flowers and candles were placed Sunday outside the Urban Animal veterinary clinic in Capitol Hill in honor of Summer Taylor. Taylor, a 24-year-old who worked for Urban Animal, died Saturday night after a driver hit them and another protester during a demonstration on Interstate 5. (Photo by Joy Resmovitz)
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Lauren Weins and Lorenzo Brown hold hands and pray during the The Prayer for Justice rally in Bellevue’s Downtown Park Sunday June 28, 2020. “It‚Äôs surprising and refreshing,‚Äù said Brown, who attends Common Good Church in Bellevue. 214348 214348
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Jennylyn Pace (CQ) is an intensive care nurse working through the COVID-19 pandemic in Yakima. She cares for gravely ill patients, some of whom remain hospitalized for weeks. She tries hard to treat them with dignity in shifts that may run as long as 16-hours a day.

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Phoenix Police Department Sgt. Kevin Johnson shows off the new Axon Body 2 body camera as another precinct gets their cameras assigned to them Wednesday, July 3, 2019, in Phoenix. Although body-worn cameras are becoming a police standard nationwide, Phoenix was among the last big departments to adopt their widespread use. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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FILE – In this Oct. 5, 2016, file photo, heavy equipment is seen at a site where sections of the Dakota Access pipeline were being buried near the town of St. Anthony in Morton County, N.D. A federal judge on Monday, July 6, 2020, sided with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and ordered the Dakota Access pipeline to shut down until more environmental review is done. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File) NDBIS501 NDBIS501

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Bil Thorn CQ points out flowers that will soon turn into fuzzy kiwis at Sky Island Farm near Humptulips, Wash. on the Olympic Peninsula. “Sky Island Farm is one of very few Black-owned farms in the Pacific Northwest,” says Thorn. “Our primary motive is to help people however we can-whether it be serving low-income communities, hospitals or educating- we are always looking for opportunities to serve our community.” 214337

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Soo Ing-Moody moved to Twisp Washington in the Methow Valley and became the small town’s mayor about ten years ago. Since she has been in office, the town has survived two major wildfires and is currently navigating through the coronavirus pandemic. Mayor Soo Ing-Moody walks down the towns main street in May. Twisp has turned into an artist’s enclave and is a stone’s throw from Winthrop and Sun Mountain in North Central Washington. Photographed on May 28, 2020. 213236

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Two of the Woodland Park Zoo’s giraffes are the tallest land animals. Some grow to a height of 19-feet. This is in the African savanna habitat. reopens to the public at 25% capacity, Wednesday July 1, 2020 214372

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Canada geese hang out at the water’s edge of Lake Union at Gas Works Park where the lake on the Fourth of July would usually be crowded with hundreds of boats to watch the fireworks. ref to more photos online LO Lineonly photo essay. Saturday, the Fourth of July 214424
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