After leaving his mother’s car to retrieve a phone charger from his aunt’s house in Washington, D.C., 11-year-old Davon McNeal was shot and killed on the Fourth of July. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible. In Chicago, shootings over the weekend injured 70 people and killed 17, including two children. A shooting in Atlanta near the Wendy’s restaurant where a police officer shot and killed Rayshard Brooks last month left an 8-year-old girl dead.

Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best called the situation in the Capitol Hill neighborhood “dangerous and unacceptable” after a shooting early Monday left one man dead and a 14-year-old wounded. Several shootings have happened in and around the area since protesters first occupied the blocks surrounding the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct building about two weeks ago. “Enough is enough,” Best said. “We need to be able to get back into the area.”

Peaceful protesters marched to the Georgia Capitol as 20 of Rayshard Brooks’ family members wept during a news conference in Atlanta on Monday. “When does it stop?” asked Chassidy Evans, Brooks’ niece. “We’re not only pleading for justice. We’re pleading for change.”

With tensions running high between police and the public since the death of George Floyd, the FBI and local authorities in California are investigating several ambush-style attacks on law enforcement and security officers. Sheriff deputies with the aid of a civilian arrested Air Force Sgt. Steven Carrillo on suspicion of killing Santa Cruz County Sheriff Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller on Saturday in Ben Lomond, Calif., and injuring another officer in an ambush from a van. The FBI also suspects Carrillo was involved in a shooting in Oakland on May 29, when a van pulled up in front of a U.S.

It was around midnight when Yuko Watanabe crouched in the corner of her restaurant in downtown Los Angeles and called her parents in Japan, yearning for a comforting voice. Rioters had hurled concrete blocks into the window of her restaurant. Raucous looters, night revelers, loud bangs, and smoke filled the streets. Broken glass and dead plants were scattered across her restaurant. 

“Did you call the police?” her mother urged. 

“Mom, you don’t get it,” Watanabe said. “They’re targeting the police!” 

“All right we are two nations,” John Dos Passos concluded in his 1936 novel about wealth and poverty, The Big Money. Events during the two weeks concluding on June 8 showed that’s true about the disunited states today, although the divide at street level is not so much rich vs. poor but protected-from-consequences vs. exposed, and tired-of-harassment vs. tired-of-chastisement. 

A Hennepin County, Minn., judge set bail at $1 million with conditions for the officer charged with murdering George Floyd. Derek Chauvin appeared in court via closed-circuit television on Monday afternoon from state prison in Oakdale, Minn. He faces charges of second-degree murder without intent, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. Floyd died two weeks ago after Chauvin knelt on his neck while attempting to arrest him. Chauvin’s next court appearance is June 29.