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Darrell Judkins, a 29-year-old from Tampa, yells to the crowd during a gathering outside the Get N Go convenience store on South 78th Street in Tampa protesting the death of Levonia Riggins, a 22-year-old who was shot by a Hillsborough County Sheriff SWAT deputy on Tuesday. "It was important for me to make a statement with my people," he said.
Michael Morales, 35, shows a tattoo and necklace he got in memory of Martin Benitez, his partner who was killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting. The text reads in Spanish: "If God takes my sight it's because he's allowed me to see all of the beauty in the world. YOU."
Hillsborough County Clerk of the Circuit Court Pat Frank listens to a speaker during the memorial service for her daughter, well-known Tampa figure Stacy Frank, at the Tampa Museum of Art. Stacy passed away after a six-month-long battle with lung cancer.
Carmelita Eggebrecht of Longwood, Florida, helps to hold up a 100 foot-long rainbow flag at the All Souls Catholic Church in Sanford, Florida, during the vigil of Luis Vielma, a victim of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. Eggebrecht and several other volunteers held the flag up for over five hours to provide the family some privacy from passersby on the road and to show their support in the wake of the tragedy.
A trio of fisherman are seen in their boat on the Lake Osborne water early one cloudy morning in James Prince Park in Lake Worth, FL.
Tranice Smith, 19, of Riviera Beach, sits for a portrait in the motel she's been living in ever since her ex-boyfriend trapped her three children in her apartment and burned the home down. The three infants survived, but Smith knows what she would do to the man who started the fire: "He can't swim. I would push him in a pool."
South Florida Fair guests are seen walking underneath the gondola and Ferris wheel rides after dark at the South Florida Fair in West Palm Beach, FL. Thousands of visitors come to the South Florida Fair to play games, eat food and see attractions during the fair's 16-day run.
Two unidentified Palm Beach Atlantic students walk along Vallowe Court at Palm Beach Atlantic University after a rainy morning in West Palm Beach, FL.
Jacquelyn Jamason watches her son, Ethan, speak to reporters at the Palm Beach County Courthouse in West Palm Beach, FL. Circuit Judge Charles Burton sentenced Jamason's former partner, Kimberly Lucas, 43, to life in prison for killing the 2-year-old daughter she shared with Jamason, plus an additional 30 years for trying to poison their at-the-time 10-year-old son.
Lucille Salvatore of Pahokee, FL., looks up at the branches of the cypress tree that has grown on her family’s property since she was a child. When the legendary 1928 Okeechobee hurricane devastated Pahokee and blew Lucille's then-home into the lake the tree did not budge. The family came back, and rebuilt their home in the shadow of the old cypress.
Fifty-nine-year-old Lake Worth resident Mario Velasquez stands for a portrait holding a candle, his main source of light at night, inside his Orange Grove Mobile Home Park residence in Lake Worth, FL. Velasquez said the neighborhood had been without power since Friday, two days before Hurricane Irma impacted the county. "One feels bothered because nobody pays attention to us," he said in Spanish. "Because we're poor we don't get as much attention."
Trey Rumlin, an 18-year-old Tampa resident, stands nearby the Get N Go convenience store where friend Levonia Riggins worked during a gathering on South 78th Street in Tampa, FL. "Daddyman was like a bro to me," Rumlin said, referencing Riggins' nickname. About 150 gathered with signs around the convenience store to protest the death of a 22-year-old who was shot by a Hillsborough County Sheriff SWAT deputy earlier in the week.
President Donald Trump waves to gathered supporters while descending Air Force One behind First Lady Melania Trump and their son, Barron Trump, during President Trump's arrival to Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, FL.
Palm Beach County Sheriff Office bicycle deputies are lined up at the corner of Southern Boulevard and South Flagler Drive during the March for Our Lives demonstration in West Palm Beach, FL.
Protestors dressed as Handmaids from "The Handmaid's Tale" stand underneath the Clock Tower on South Ocean Boulevard before the start of the "Impeachment March to Mar-A-Largo" in Palm Beach, FL. Hundreds of participants gathered in Palm Beach to march towards Mar-A-Largo and protest President Trump on the first anniversary of his presidency
A man who asked not to be identified adjusts his cap while fishing at the Juno Beach Fishing Pier at sunrise.