![Lori Kate, far right, cheers for Drag Brunch host Sasha Cassadine while sitting next to her mother Jeanette June, and friends Kirsten Gronstal and Sara Hadley, at the Pride Drag Brunch at Union Rooftop on Saturday, June 27. “It’s my first time out [since quarantine began],” said June, “If I was going to come out, it would be for something like this.”](https://mndaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/062720-aeDragBrunch004.jpg)
![Cameron Johnson, accompanied by parents Kristi and Truitt Johnson as well as Tom Nechodomu, clockwise from left, watch performer Tygra at the Pride Drag Brunch at Union Rooftop on Saturday, June 27. Cameron was attending the event as part of their first Pride celebration. “It’s really nice to be here [for Pride]”, they said, “…and all of the drag queens are so pretty.”](https://mndaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/062720-aeDragBrunch002.jpg)
![University of Minnesota internal medicine and pediatrics resident Bryan Leyva speaks to the crowd of medical students and professionals outside of the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office on Tuesday, June 2. “The [medical examiner’s] preliminary report was used to refute the pain that George Floyd felt and we can’t allow that to happen,” Leyva said.](https://mndaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/060220-medicalprotest005.jpg)
![Cherith Nelson holds up a sign that says “Free Food” in front of Minnehaha Commons where a donation drop-off for the mental health residence grew into an impromptu community food shelf over the course of a few hours on East Lake Street near the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct on Friday, May 29. Nelson came to donate food but stayed to help and happened to have sign materials in her car. When she asked other volunteers what they needed, Nelson said that their biggest concern was letting people know that the food was there. “It all has to be gone by 8 p.m. [to comply with curfew],” Nelson said.](https://mndaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/052920-GFProtestsGallery-AK-015.jpg)
![John Kaczorek, a math teacher from Minneapolis, gives a thumbs up outside of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church near the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct on Friday, May 29. Kaczorek came to help a friend board up on Thursday afternoon and has been here helping ever since, including moving the aid operation on Thursday at about 9 p.m. when the neighboring library caught fire. Kaczorek said that protesters and law enforcement alike have received aid at the church. “I’m not letting [the police] off the hook,” Kaczorek said, “but they need to know that their humanity is linked to George Floyd’s.”](https://mndaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/052920-GFProtestsGallery-AK-012.jpg)
![Bernard Duckworth Jr. carries his father and U.S. Armed Forces Veteran Bernard Duckworth’s flag and portrait while addressing the assembled demonstrators and law enforcement near the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct on Friday, May 29. “We have soldiers on the front lines for real … including in hospitals … and they are dying for America,” Duckworth said. “All these people out there [at the protest] are Americans, and on the other side are more Americans.”](https://mndaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/052920-GFProtestsGallery-AK-014.jpg)
![Tyrell Floyd, a third-year student at Carleton College, paints a portrait of George Floyd on the front porch of the Students' Co-op in Dinkytown on Thursday, May 28. “Putting my energy into this person is really important to me,” Floyd said. “[I’m] painting out of respect, really.”](https://mndaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/052820-GFProtestsGallery-AK-004.jpg)
![Cherith Nelson holds up a sign that reads “Free Food” in front of Minnehaha Commons where a donation drop-off for the mental health residence grew into an impromptu community food shelf over the course of a few hours on E Lake Street near the MPD 3rd Precinct in Minneapolis on Friday, May 29. Nelson came to donate food, but stayed to help and happened to have sign materials in her car. When she asked other volunteers what they needed, Nelson says that their biggest concern was letting people know that the food was there. “It all has to be gone by 8 p.m. [to comply with curfew],” Nelson said.](https://mndaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/052920ELakeStreetcleanup025.jpg)
![Tyrell Floyd, a third-year student at Carlton College, paints a portrait of George Floyd on the front porch of The Student’s Co-op in Dinkytown on Thursday, May 28. “Putting my energy into this person is really important to me,” Floyd said, “[I’m] painting out of respect, really.”](https://mndaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/052820studentprotest002.jpg)
![Tyrell Floyd, a third-year student at Carlton College, paints a portrait of George Floyd on the front porch of The Student’s Co-op in Dinkytown on Thursday, May 28. “Putting my energy into this person is really important to me,” Floyd said, “[I’m] painting out of respect, really.”](https://mndaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/052820studentprotest001.jpg)
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