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Mississippi Gov: Protests good but no place for ‘agitators’ The Mississippi Link

By Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press, Protesters marched in Mississippi’s capital city Monday, with some stopping to lie on the ground outside Jackson’s main police station to remember George Floyd, a black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for several minutes. Other protests took place during the []

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