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This arresting image at the epicenter of the demonstrations on the streets of Minneapolis near where George Floyd became a victim on Memorial Day, May 25th, 2020.

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May 28, 2020, Minnesota, USA: As the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct burns behind him, a protester and his friend proudly hold up a police belt during a riot over the killing of George Floyd. The city has entered the fourth day of unrest in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, with rioters taking over the police department’s 3rd precinct building late Thursday night.

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ZUMA’s talented award-winning picture editing staff of Jessica Cotsonas, Julie Rogers, Mark Avery, Ruaridh Stewart, Scott Mc Kiernan, Shalan Stewart, and the POM Editor-in-Chief Jim Colton made this ZUMA show possible. Enjoy and pass the word to others.

Photographers:

Abhisek Saha • Agvi Firdaus • Alexander Demianchuk • Allen Eyestone • Allison Dinner • Alyssa Pointer • Amir Al Mohammedaw • Anas Alkharboutli • Armin Weigel • Arne Dedert • Ashram Amra • Aurelien Morissard • Axel Heimken • Ben Gray • Bernd Thissen • Boris Roessler • Carlos Gonzalez • Chris Juhn • Chris Urso • Christoph Hardt • Christoph Schmidt • Dan Herrick • Daniel Mears • Darnella Frazier • David Crane • Dipa Chakraborty • Dwi Anoraganingrum • Elizabeth Flores • Evgen Kotenko • Fachul Reza • Greg Lovett • Hannah Mckay • Jason Ryan • Jay Mallin • Jeff Wheeler • Jerome Domine • Jerry Holt • Joe Burbank • Joel Marklund • Kim Shiflett • Luis Santana • Liu Changchang • Lucas Silva • Madji Fathi • Mairo Cinquetti • Marco Passaro • Mark Vancleave • Martyn Wheatley • May James • Md Rafayat Haque Khan • Michael Brochstein • Narayan Maharjan • Olena Khudiakova • Patrick Pleul • Paul Kitagaki Jr. • Paulo Lopes • Prabhat Kumar Verma • Ringo Chiu • Risa Krisadhi • Robert Michael • Roberto Monaldo • Robin Loznak • Robin Utrecht • Sachelle Babbar • Scott Serio • Sergei Bobylev • Simone Bergamaschi • Sonia Moskowitz Gordon • Stanislav Krasilnikov • Sunil Pradhan • Tim Thompson • Uli Deck • Vachira Vachira • Vanessa Carvalho • Vichan Poti • Vijay Pandey • Vladimir Smirnov • Will Lester • Yang Ying

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May 23, 2020, Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela: A girl waits get on a bus to return to her city due to the quarantine.

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May 28th 2020: Mohammad Rakibul Hasan is a documentary photographer, filmmaker and visual artist. He is currently pursuing an MA in Photography at Falmouth University, UK. He holds an Undergraduate Certificate in Higher Education in History of Art from Oxford University, pursued a Postgraduate Diploma in Photojournalism from Ateneo de Manila University and also graduated in Film & Video Production from UBS Film School at the University of Sydney. He was nominated for many international awards and won hundreds of photographic competitions worldwide including Lucie Award, Human Rights Press Award and Allard Prize. His photographs have been published and exhibited internationally. He is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh and represented by Redux Pictures, ZUMA Press, USA and a contributing journalist for the Daily Star and Reuters. Hasan is also a consultant photographer and documentary filmmaker for Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank, FAO of the United Nations, UN Women, USAID, Water Aid and major iNGOs. He is a Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Fellow. Hasan is also a faculty member of Counter Foto, a photography and visual art institution in Bangladesh.

May 26, 2020, Hong Kong, CHINA: Cadets from Hong Kong Police Academy perform daily ritual of Flag Raising Ceremony at the Golden Bauhinia Square in the morning.

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May 23, 2020, Hong Kong, CHINA: Panoramic view of Hong Kong and Victoria Harbour as seen from the PEAK, geographically highest point in the City.

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May 24, 2020. “ALWAY READY” English Below). The interventionist team of advanced support of the emergency mobile service in the city of São Paulo is composed of a doctor, a nurse and a rescuer driver. During the 24-hour duty calls to suspicious cases of COVID-19 already account for approximately 70 % of the total. Every service, the care is increased with the paramentation and deparamentation of the epi, in addition to the full hygiene of the ambulance. With this increases the response time to the so-called and proportionately the population’s responsibility to use service in a conscious and balanced way. Only trigger SAMU in case of urgency so that lives at risk have a better chance of being saved. #StayHome

The interventionist team of advanced support of the Mobile Emergency Care Service in the city of São Paulo is composed of a doctor, a nurse and a first aid driver. During the 24-hour shift, assistance to suspected cases of COVID-19 already represents approximately 70% of the total. At each service, care is increased with the donning and doffing PPE, in addition to the complete cleaning of the ambulance. This increases the response time to calls and proportionally the population’s responsibility to use the service in a conscious and balanced way. Only activate the SAMU in case of urgency so that lives at imminent risk are more likely to be saved. #StayHome

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Hundreds of new graves were dug in the Vila Formosa cemetery, in Sao Paulo. The cemetery is the largest in Latin America and has been doing about 70 burials a day, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In Brazil, more than 300 thousand people were infected with Covid-19 and more than 16 thousand died.

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March 2, 2020, St. Paul, Minnesota: US Representative ILHAN OMAR  speaks at a Bernie Sanders Get Out the Vote rally in the RiverCentre in St. Paul. Rep. Omar endorsed Sanders for President and has been a Sanders surrogate on the campaign trail. More than 8,400 people attended the rally. Minnesota is a Super Tuesday state this year and Minnesotans will go to the polls Tuesday.

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May 9, 2020, Munich, Bavaria, Germany: Despite ongoing relaxing measures, a cross-front mixture of 3,000 conspiracy theorists, QAnon followers, right-extremists, AfD figures, neonazis, hooligans, and Widerstand2020 assembled for a third weekend in Munich’s city center, primarily at Marienplatz, to demonstrate for restoration of the Grundgesetz amid the Coronavirus crisis.

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April 20, 2020, Hong Kong, Hong : Shuttered and closed, a commuter wearing a protective mask in front of an advertisement for commercial property for lease. The outbreak and global pandemic introduced by coronavirus Covid19 has brought down retail business in Hong Kong.

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