AJC Photos of the Week, July 9-15, 2016

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AJC Photos of the Week, July 9-15, 2016

Lucien Novak, 2, left, shares his flowers with La'Nae Hartford, 5, at Lee Circle in Center City during a protest, Friday, July 8, 2016 in New Orleans. (Maggie Andresen/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP)

The truck which slammed into revelers late Thursday, July 14, is seen near the site of an attack in the French resort city of Nice, southern France, Friday, July 15, 2016. The truck loaded with weapons and hand grenades drove onto a sidewalk for more than a mile, plowing through Bastille Day revelers who'd gathered to watch fireworks in the French resort city of Nice late Thursday. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

A protester yells at police in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters after police arrived in riot gear to clear protesters from the street in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, July 9, 2016. Several protesters were arrested. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

071016 ATLANTA: Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and Chief of Police George Turner leave a command vehicle with protest leaders after meeting with them outside the Governor's mansion during a fifth night of demonstrations on Monday, July 11, 2016, in Atlanta. Curtis Compton /ccompton@ajc.com

Officers standoff with demonstrators at the I-75/85 Williams Street exit, Friday, July 8, 2016. Demonstrators gathered following the deaths of Alton Sterling, 37, who was killed by Baton Rouge police outside of a convenience store where he was selling CDs, and Philando Castile, who was shot and killed when Minnesota police stopped him for a traffic violation on Wednesday evening. BRANDEN CAMP/SPECIAL

President Barack Obama speaks an interfaith memorial service for the fallen police officers and members of the Dallas community, Tuesday, July 12, 2016, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

July 10, 2016 Dallas, Texas - Dallas shooting survivor Shetamia Taylor breaks down as she recalls during a press conference at Baylor University Medical Center on Sunday, July 10, 2016. Shetamia Taylor risked her life to protect her 15-year-old son as chaos broke out in Dallas Thursday night when a sniper opened fire after an otherwise peaceful protest, killing five law enforcement officers. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

July 14, 2016 - Atlanta - Paige Cason-Barrett, who is Dinah's maternal grandmother, spends a moment with Dinah. They are in the baby's hospital room at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston. Dinah Paige Whited, the abused infant, is expected to die today after nearly three months on life support at Children's Heathcare at Egleston. CRAIG SCHNEIDER / Craig.Schneider@ajc.com

071016 ATLANTA: A woman light by the lights of police vehicles joins hands in silent protest across from the Governor's mansion with a Black Lives Matter sticker over her mouth during a fifth night of demonstrations on Monday, July 11, 2016, in Atlanta. Curtis Compton /ccompton@ajc.com

*** BESTPIX *** DALLAS, TX - JULY 12: Reserved seats contain American flags and police hats during an interfaith memorial service, honoring five slain police officers, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on July 12, 2016 in Dallas, Texas. A sniper opend fire following a Black Lives Matter march in Dallas killing five police officers and injuring 12 others. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

Portraits of the five fallen police officers are seen at rear as a memorial gets underway at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Tuesday, July 12, 2016, after the arrival of President Barack Obama. Five police officers were killed and several injured during a shooting in downtown Dallas last Thursday night. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

July 8, 2016 Atlanta: Protestors confront police officers on Williams Street. Police blocked protestors from walking onto the downtown connector Friday night. Thousands gathered in the streets of Atlanta Friday July 8, 216 to protest the recent police shootings that have happened around the county. The group gathered outside the National Center for Civil and Human Rights before marching to Centennial Olympic Park and surrounding streets. BRANT SANDERLIN/BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM

July 8, 2016 Atlanta: Carol Buffman, of Marietta, carries a sign reading "If Philando looked like me he would be alive". Protesters marched from the Center for Civil and Human Rights on Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard to the CNN Center on Marietta St in response to recent shootings and civil rights issues. The rallies and march was sponsored by the NAACP and Black Lives Matter. EMILY JENKINS/ EJENKINS@AJC.COM

July 8, 2016 Atlanta: The crowd stopped in front of the CNN Center before continuing along Marietta Street. Thousands gathered in the streets of Atlanta Friday July 8, 216 to protest the recent police shootings that have happened around the county. The group gathered outside the National Center for Civil and Human Rights before marching to Centennial Olympic Park and surrounding streets. BRANT SANDERLIN/BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM

July 8, 2016 Atlanta: Protesters move towards the National Center for Civil and Human Rights on Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard. The shooting of 12 police officers in Dallas, days after white officers killed two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, prompted several demonstrations and protests Friday, July 8, 2016 in and around Atlanta. Around noon, about 35 people marched downtown, protesting the shootings. Carrie Choe organized the event through a social media post, to start a conversation about violence. “Something has to change,” she said. “Today we are marching in protest of violence by police officers and by protesters … more than anything, we are trying to build a positive relationships between us and police.” The group marched from 10th and Peachtree streets to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. The marchers were not part of any official organization, Choe said, “we’re just mad citizens, mad Americans.” A separate demonstration, organized by the NAACP, was scheduled Friday afternoon at 6 p.m. also at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. A local Black Lives Matter chapter is also planning to participate in that event. In a statement Friday, the NAACP condemned the violence in Dallas. “Change must come to policing in America but it cannot and will not come at the end of a barrel of a gun” said Francys Johnson, Georgia NAACP president. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, other city leaders and police officials were scheduled to hold a safety briefing Friday afternoon. Reed is expected to address the discovery of a man found hanged in Piedmont Park on Thursday. Hundreds of people marched in downtown Atlanta Thursday night to protest the police shootings and also in response to the hanging. Additional demonstrations are expected throughout the weekend, including a march Saturday morning on Barrett Parkway in Kennesaw and a community forum in DeKalb County with Cedric Alexander, DeKalb’s deputy chief operatin

Demonstrators hold their hands up while confronting police officers at the I-75/85 Williams Street exit, Friday, July 8, 2016. Demonstrators gathered following the deaths of Alton Sterling, 37, who was killed by Baton Rouge police outside of a convenience store where he was selling CDs, and Philando Castile, who was shot and killed when Minnesota police stopped him for a traffic violation on Wednesday evening. BRANDEN CAMP/SPECIAL

July 10, 2016 Dallas, Texas - Church members join hands as they take part in a service at Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas on Sunday, July 10, 2016. Two prominent pastors in Dallas are leading their flocks, and the entire city, through one of its grimmest chapters. Jeff Warren, who is white, and Bryan Carter, who is black, are renowned for their work espousing racial unity. They once swapped pulpits on Palm Sunday as a way of uniting their congregations and just got back from a joint pilgrimage to Charleston's Emanuel AME. They organized the huge downtown prayer service on Thursday and will no doubt speak on the topic from their respective pulpits on Sunday. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

Pallbearers raise their fists in the air as they bring the casket carrying Philando Castile back to the horse-drawn carriage following Castile's funeral in St. Paul, Minn., on Thursday, July 14, 2016. (Aaron Lavinsky/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS)

071016 ATLANTA: Hundreds of protesters march through the streets of Atlanta blocking traffic during another night of demonstrations on Sunday, July 10, 2016. Curtis Compton /ccompton@ajc.com

Police officers stand near a van, with its windscreen riddled with bullets, on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, on Thursday, July 15, 2016. The truck sped into a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations in the southern French city, killing dozens. The driver was killed by police. (Franck Fernandes/Maxppp/Zuma Press/TNS)

July 8, 2016 Dallas, Texas - A group of people hold a prayer service for themselves near police cars decorated as a public memorial in front of Dallas police headquarters Friday night, July 8, 2016. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

071016 ATLANTA: For the fifth consecutive day dozens of people took the streets who continue their claims by police abuse for the recent deaths of two Afro-Americans in the hands of police. The meeting point was at the Lenox Marta station and ended at the Governors Mansion but not before were around ten arrest halfway through the journey. Among the demands the Protestants requested a meeting with the police Chief of Atlanta and Mayor Kasim Reed, who were present and agreed to meet with the leaders of Black Lives Matter next Monday.

July 8, 2016 Dallas, Texas - Fermin Betancourt comforts his girlfriend Dallas police officer Yuridia Morales (right) near police cars decorated as a public memorial in front of Dallas police headquarters Friday night, July 8, 2016. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

July 10, 2016 Corsicana, Texas - Hundreds gather for a candlelight vigil to honor Brent Thompson, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer killed in the Thursday night attack, at Corsicana High School in Corsicana on Sunday, July 10, 2016. Thompson was a Corsicana native, a graduate of Corsicana High and a former officer for both the city and Corsicana ISD. Thompson was the first of the five fallen officers in the Dallas shooting to be named. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

July 12, 2016 Atlanta: Alex Rodriguez, Store Operator at Chick-fil-A on Hammond drive greets Issac Timberline,1, and Nolan Timberline,3, on Cow Appreciation Day on Tuesday, July,12. Customers who come to Chick-Fil-A wearing anything cow-like will get a free entree from open to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 12. In the past, Cow Appreciation Day has been on a Friday, however this year the celebration is held on Tuesday to reduce heavy crowds. EMILY JENKINS/ EJENKINS@AJC.COM

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Lucien Novak, 2, left, shares his flowers with La'Nae Hartford, 5, at Lee Circle in Center City during a protest, Friday, July 8, 2016 in New Orleans. (Maggie Andresen/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP)

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