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In this March 26, 2016, file photo, Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson chats with campaign volunteers in Baltimore. A federal lawsuit accuses Black Lives Matter and several movement leaders of inciting violence that led to a gunman's deadly ambush of law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge last summer. Mckesson and four other Black Lives Matter leaders are named as defendants in the suit filed Friday on behalf of one of the officers wounded in the July 17 attack by a black military veteran, who killed three other officers before he was shot dead. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014 file photo, Brenda Fitzgerald, Georgia Department of Public Health commissioner, left, and Gov. Nathan Deal respond to questions about Ebola victims at Emory University Hospital and efforts to screen for Ebola among travelers passing through Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport during the governor's visit to Georgia Tech, in Atlanta. On Friday, July 7, 2016, Fitzgerald was named to lead the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal government's top public health agency. (AP Photo/David Tulis)
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Christian Tarver places encouraging artwork on police vehicles outside the services for San Antonio police officer Miguel Moreno, Friday, July 7, 2017, in San Antonio. Moreno died of wounds suffered when he and his partner were shot by a man they intended to question about a vehicle break-in last week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Christian Tarver places encouraging artwork on police vehicles outside the services for San Antonio police officer Miguel Moreno, Friday, July 7, 2017, in San Antonio. Moreno died of wounds suffered when he and his partner were shot by a man they intended to question about a vehicle break-in last week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A San Antonio police officer wears a black ribbon with the badge number of fellow officer officer Miguel Moreno during services, Friday, July 7, 2017, in San Antonio. Moreno died of wounds suffered when he and his partner were shot by a man they intended to question about a vehicle break-in last week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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San Antonio police officers transfer the casket of fellow police officer Miguel Moreno to a caisson, Friday, July 7, 2017, in San Antonio. Moreno died of wounds suffered when he and his partner were shot by a man they intended to question about a vehicle break-in last week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A caisson arrives for the services of San Antonio police officer Miguel Moreno, Friday, July 7, 2017, in San Antonio. Moreno died of wounds suffered when he and his partner were shot by a man they intended to question about a vehicle break-in last week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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San Antonio police officers follow a caisson with the casket of fellow police officer Miguel Moreno, Friday, July 7, 2017, in San Antonio. Moreno died of wounds suffered when he and his partner were shot by a man they intended to question about a vehicle break-in last week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A graffiti is written on a chair in a makeshift street camp in Paris, Friday, July 7, 2017. Paris authorities are evacuating some 1,500 migrants from a makeshift street camp as Europe faces an upsurge in new arrivals. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Migrants line up as they wait to be evacuated from a makeshift street camp, in Paris, France Friday, July 7, 2017. Paris authorities are evacuating some 1,500 migrants from a makeshift street camp as Europe faces an upsurge in new arrivals. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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A migrant walks in a makeshift street camp to collect his matters before being evacuated, in Paris, Friday, July 7, 2017. Paris authorities are evacuating some 1,500 migrants from a makeshift street camp as Europe faces an upsurge in new arrivals. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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FILE- In this Friday Jan. 13, 2017 file photo, a migrant reacts on being rescued by the MV Aquarius, after 191 people and two corpses were recovered from international waters in the Mediterranean Sea about 22 miles north of Sabrata, Libya. Europeans have made a wrong, and dangerous, turn on the Mediterranean as they try to slow the ever-growing number of migrants crossing the sea by looking for help from Libya, a country in chaos that is the jumping-off point for the hazardous journey, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday, July 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Sima Diab, File)
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A firefighter puts out a fire during a protest against the upcoming G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, Friday July 7, 2017. The leader of the group of 20 meet Friday and Saturday in Hamburg. (Bodo Marks/dpa via AP)
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People look at a burnt-out car in Hamburg, Germany, early Friday, July 7, 2017, after protests against the G-20 summit. The leaders of the group of 20 meet Friday and Saturday in Hamburg. (Axel Heimken/dpa via AP)
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A window is smashed in Hamburg, northern Germany, Friday, July 7, 2017 after protests against the G-20 summit turnt violent the night before. (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)
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Kelly McKinney, 29, of Glasgow, center, holds a megaphone as she chants with other protesters on the sidewalk of the Barren River Plaza shopping center in Glasgow, Ky., Thursday, July 6, 2017. Maureen Davis, 58, of Bowling Green, left, and Denise Zielinski, 66, of Bowling Green, right, chant along with McKinney. They said they were protesting against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who was speaking at a Glasgow Rotary Club meeting inside the T.J. Health Pavilion Community Center. (Will Perkins/The Daily Times via AP)
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Glasgow Police Department Chief Guy Howie, right, tells a group of protesters that they are not allowed to chant because they are on private property on a grassy area in the parking lot in front of the T.J. Health Pavilion Community Center in Glasgow, Ky., Thursday, July 6, 2017. They said they were protesting against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who was speaking at a Glasgow Rotary Club meeting inside the T.J. Health Pavilion Community Center. (Will Perkins/The Daily Times via AP)
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House Republicans, including Minority Leader Jim Durkin, R-Western Springs, center, listen to comments from House Speaker Michael Madigan after the House voted to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto of a budget package at the Capitol Thursday, July 6, 2017. (Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register via AP)
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In this June 28, 2017 photo, Junius Williams talks to a reporter about the the Newark riots of 1967 in Newark, N.J. Fifty years ago Williams was a law student at Yale University fighting gentrification in Newark when the riots broke out. As he was driving friends home on the second night of the riots, Williams faced down a police officer wielding a shotgun during a traffic stop. He was spared, he says, when a sergeant diffused the situation by searching Williams’ car for guns. He found only law books. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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In this June 28, 2017 photo, Junius Williams talks to a reporter about the Newark riots of 1967 in Newark, N.J. Fifty years ago Williams was a law student at Yale University fighting gentrification in Newark when the riots broke out. As he was driving friends home on the second night of the riots, Williams faced down a police officer wielding a shotgun during a traffic stop. He was spared, he says, when a sergeant diffused the situation by searching Williams’ car for guns. He found only law books. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
