Photo courtesy of Will Donlow https://shorturl.at/UzqIJ “There she died. She died right there in the church. We couldn’t get her out.” “People are stuck in the Roosevelts. People are stuck in a 10 foot story building right now.” “Being an MLK statue, it fell down. It’s broken. We need a new MLK statue. It’s gone. […]
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