Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, right and Police Chief Carmen Best, left, confer during a tour of downtown Seattle Sunday during visits to businesses damaged in Saturday’s protests that were sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times)
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Private citizens cleanup glass and stack clothes at an Old Navy damaged in downtown Seattle Sunday, May 31, 2020, caused by Saturday’s violent protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. 214108

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Callaway High School graduate Keyarie Harris, of Jackson, Miss., pauses to get her temperature taken by Mallory Jones, RN, with Jackson Public Schools, in Jackson, Miss., before heading into Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson, Miss., for her graduation ceremony Wednesday, May 20, 2020. The JPS school graduations are being staggered, using face masks and adhering to social distancing. The ceremonies are being recorded for a virtual graduation to be played back at a later scheduled time. (Barbara Gauntt/The Clarion-Ledger via AP) MSJAD202 MSJAD202

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A group dubbed “The Puffy Pandemic Parade” cross NE 65th St. in the Ravenna neighborhood for a march past the Ida Culver House retirement home, Wednesday, May 27, 2020 in Seattle. Organizer Jean Bryant describes the group as all NE Seattle friends. The group has marched one other time and the goal is to spread cheer during the coronavirus outbreak. On this march, the 14 staged in the parking lot of a pub, getting into their inflatable costumes to wave to residents at the retirement home for half an hour. Many residents and staff waved back. “I was tearing up when I was doing this,” said Bryant as she saw “lots of smiles, dancing and waving.” The group plans to keep marching. In a follow-up text Bryant said “We will definitely continue as long as the pandemic is around.” 214066
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