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Breonna Taylor's family and friends mourn her death — and process what it means for her to become a national symbol.

The time span is how long prosecutors say George Floyd was pinned to the ground under a white Minneapolis police officer's knee before he died.

Protesters filled the streets the same day it was announced that the charge against one Minneapolis officer was increased to second-degree murder in the death of George Floyd.

The diminishing pace suggests the job market meltdown triggered by COVID-19 may have bottomed out as more companies call at least some of their former employees back to work.

"Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people," Mattis said. "Does not even pretend to try."

Mostly peaceful throughout the day, the demonstrators faced police officers, National Guard troops and other forces.

Calling out active duty troops to quell widespread unrest over the death of George Floyd is an option congressional Democrats are warning would only make matters worse.

"There have been epidemics in the Black community that have existed for generations before COVID. COVID accentuated and exposed those epidemics."

The upbraiding from the White House didn't sit well with many governors, who have been busy responding to clashes between protesters and police in dozens of cities.

"I was outraged that he felt that he had the license to do that, and that he would abuse our sacred symbols and our sacred space in that way," Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde said.

Floyd, a Black man who was in handcuffs at the time, died a week ago after a white Minneapolis officer held his knee on Floyd’s neck for several minutes.

"I know I can't come back from this. But this can be replaced. George's life cannot. George's life was more important. I hope he gets justice."

Advocates are questioning whether tough police tactics against demonstrators are actually making the violence worse rather than quelling it.

In Minneapolis, a semitractor-trailer plowed through a crowd of protesters marching on an interstate highway near downtown which had been closed to traffic.

The announcement on Saturday from the nation's eighth-largest retailer came after Target stores in multiple cities became scenes of violence and unrest.