A counter-protester holds up their hands in front of hundreds of white supremacist protesters with torches at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial statue on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA on August 11, 2017.
Patricia McCloskey aims a pistol with her finger on the trigger at protesters who marched onto Portland Place in St. Louis on June 28, 2020. The McCloskeys were charged with felony gun charges after the incident.
A limousine parked on K Street burns after it was set it on fire during demonstrations where police and protesters clashed outside of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2017.
A moment of silence is held as two activists act out how the family of 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya says he was killed in an unreleased video at the end of the Justice for Patrick Lyoya march in Grand Rapids on Saturday, April 9, 2022. Patrick Lyoya was killed during a traffic stop by former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr on Monday, April 4, 2022.
Florida Governor and Republican presidential primary candidate Ran DeSantis speaks to a crowd of supporters at the Never Back Down campaign event inside the F&E Event Center on Saturday, June 10, 2023, in Tulsa, Okla.
Karel Wolters, who has been waterskiing for the past 78 years, celebrated his 82nd birthday on the lake by waterskiing on Reeds Lake on a disk where he used only his teeth to not fall into the water. The Grand City Skiers have performed at Reeds Lake 44 times since Wolters founded them in 1978.
Jorge Rosas, center, dances with other members of Danza Santa Maria while they lead parishioners and church leaders from the Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma during a processional for the Feast Day of Corpus Christi through downtown Tulsa on Thursday, June 8, 2023.
Metropolitan Police officers pose for a photo in front of the Capitol Building inside the "green zone" set up to prepare for the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington, D.C., on January 17, 2021, in response to the January 6th insurrection.
Cheri Johnson stands up after being baptized by her husband Pastor Mike Jonson, right, and missionary evangelist John Ritchers, left, as members of the congregation capture the scene on their smartphones. Baptisms went on into the night during a revival service organized by Messenger Church on a lot at the corner of 13th Street and Cass Avenue in St. Louis on Thursday, July 1, 2021.
A boxer who had his foot torn off by another animal lays on a triage table while Dr. Julie Brinker, left, wraps his wounds assisted by Alyssa Norsworthy, center, and Carron Widmann, right, holds and comforts him on Thursday, July 29, 2021, at the Humane Society of Missouri. Twenty-one dogs were rescued by the Humane Society of Missouri's (HSMO) Animal Cruelty Task Force on Wednesday, July 28th in McDonald County during a search and rescue operation with the Missouri Department of Agriculture and the local sheriff's department.
Fire crews with the St. Louis fire department battled a two-alarm fire at a brick warehouse in the Downtown West neighborhood of St. Louis on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021.
London Mayo, 9, left, and Tariq Couch, 5, scream as they run through the haunted house set up in the locker room at the Tandy Recreation Center in The Ville neighborhood of St. Louis during the haunted house and dance event on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021.
A St. Louis police department homicide detective shines his flashlight over the scene where a black SUV opened fire on mourners gathered at a vigil for Demetrise Thomas who was shot and killed near the same site in the Downtown West neighborhood of St. Louis, two blocks from police headquarters on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. Cedric Owens, 34, of St. Louis, was killed, two women, both 23, were shot in the head and are in critical condition and one male victim, 21, was shot in the leg and is in stable condition.
Peter Lyoya, right, father of Patrick Lyoya, closes his eyes as a tear runs down his face while he is surrounded by activists during the Justice for Patrick Lyoya march in Grand Rapids on Saturday, April 9, 2022. Patrick Lyoya was killed during a traffic stop by former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr on Monday, April 4, 2022.
Debris is gathered into piles around damaged delivery vehicles where crews are performing search and recovery operations at an Amazon distribution center in Edwardsville, Ill., on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. At least six people died when a tornado late Friday night hit the building causing a partial collapse.
An armed protester walks in front of a line of Florissant police officers moments before shooting himself in the foot from an accidental discharge of his AR-15 on June 23, 2020, during a protest against former Florrissant officer Joshua Smith. On June 7, 2020, Smith was caught on tape hitting a man with an unmarked vehicle in the nearby municipality of Dellwood, Missouri prompting demonstrations at the police station.
Breonna Taylor's sister Ju'Niyah Palmer, left, wipes tears from her mother Tamika Palmer's eyes during a press conference while Taylor's aunt, Bianca Taylor read a message from the family while wearing Breonna Taylor's EMS jacket on Sept. 25, 2020, in Jefferson Square Park. "I was reassured on Wednesday of why I have no faith in the legal system, the police, and the law that are not made to protect us black and brown people, but when I speak on it I am considered an angry black woman", Bianca Taylor said about the grand jury decision earlier in the week.
A protester holding a sign that says resist in Spanish stands on the United States side of the border wall that separates Nogales, Sonora, and Nogales, Ariz., during the SOA Watch Border Encuentro 2017 protest on November 11, 2017.
Reverend Raymond Johnson dances in front of protesters with their fists in the air on the steps of the Louisville Metro Hall on Sept. 24, 2020, near Jefferson Square Park in Louisville, Kentucky. "It's been very peaceful. I came here to march tonight, I want love, I come to pray", Rev. Johnson said, "I can understand they're frustrated, but I don't want to take that frustration in violence." Johnson went on to say, "I think tonight is going to be a lot calmer."
Fort Osage High School student Layla Dykes holds a flag and a sign at the fence of the Governor's Mansion as hundreds of protesters marched around the Missouri State Capitol building for the Rally Against the Lockdown on April 21, 2020, in Jefferson City, Mo.