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The shooting death of an eight-year-old girl near the burned-out Wendy’s in Atlanta where Rayshard Brooks was killed by a police officer risks fanning a backlash against weeks of demonstrations across America by people campaigning for racial justice.

Armed protesters had taken over the area where Secoriea Turner was traveling in a car driven by her mother. As they tried to pull into a parking lot they were stopped by armed individuals, police said, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Shots were fired and Turner was killed.

“They say black lives matter,” local TV station WSB-TV 2 quoted her father as saying. “You killed your own this time. You killed a child. She didn’t do nothing to nobody.” A $10,000 reward was offered for information leading to arrests.

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, known to be under consideration by Joe Biden for the vice presidential spot on the Democratic ticket, said police will clear the area of protesters. “If you want people to take us seriously, and you don’t want us to lose this movement, then we can’t lose each other in this,” she told a news conference, the Washington Post reported.

“There are peaceful demonstrators across this city and across this country, and I applaud them and I thank them for being peaceful and for honoring the lives of so many people who have been killed in America because of injustice,” Bottoms said. “But this random Wild, Wild West, shoot ‘em up because you can, it has got to stop. It has to stop.”

Mark Zuckerberg will meet Tuesday with leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Anti-Defamation League and Color of Change to address a range of concerns about Facebook. Advocates have helped press companies, including Starbucks Corp. and PepsiCo Inc., to join an advertising boycott over accusations that Facebook hasn’t done enough to curb hate-speech and disinformation.

All Formula One drivers in the season-opening Grand Prix in Austria wore black T-shirts printed with “End Racism.” Yet six of the 19 drivers didn’t join Lewis Hamilton, the sport’s only Black driver, in taking a knee during the event, the Associated Press reported. At Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the ‘Trump 2020’ car driven by Corey LaJoie was caught up in a wreck early on in Nascar’s Brickyard 400, while Bubba Wallace — the series’ only Black driver — came ninth. The pro-Trump car, funded by a pro-Trump super PAC, will run for another eight races.

In Gettysburg, Pa., word spread on social media that Antifa protesters would converge at the historic Civil War battlefield on July 4th to burn American flags. According to the Washington Post, self-proclaimed militias, bikers and far-right groups flooded in by the hundreds.

But like several other recent claims of Antifa targeting small towns, it was all made up. Alongside similar hoaxes around the country in the wake of George Floyd’s death, it shows how shadowy figures online can stoke fears about the protests against racial injustice, and how willing others are to mobilize an armed response.

A statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass was torn down in Rochester, New York, where almost 150 years ago Douglass gave his famous “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” speech. It’s not clear why it was torn down. The statue is too damaged to be repaired and is expected to be replaced, the Democrat & Chronicle newspaper reported.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, a Republican twice elected in the otherwise blue state, said Baltimore city leaders “need to regain control of their own streets.” The comments came after protesters took down a Christopher Columbus statue near the Little Italy neighborhood and rolled remnants of it in the Inner Harbor.

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One of two protesters hit by a car in Seattle has died and the other was seriously injured. The driver was stopped and detained and faces a bail hearing today, the Huffington Post reported.

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