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In this aerial photo, destruction in Downtown Mayfield, Ky., lies in ruins, Dec. 12, 2021, in the aftermath of tornadoes that tore through the region. (AP Photo / Gerald Herbert)

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, poses during an interview with The Associated Press in Atlanta, Dec. 8, 2021. Walensky discussed early analysis of the omicron variant, as well as booster vaccine policy for some teenagers. Walensky said that cases of the omicron variant have been reported in the U.S. so far, with most of them people who were vaccinated and nearly all of them suffering only mild illness, Walensky said Wednesday. ​(AP Photo / Brynn Anderson)

Tears streak down the cheek of Ahmaud Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, after the jury convicted Travis McMichael of Arbery’s murder, in the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga., Nov. 24, 2021., in Brunswick, Ga. (AP Photo / Stephen B. Morton, Pool)

A pickup truck with a Confederate flag-themed decal is parked outside the Reception and Medical Center, a Florida prison hospital where new inmates are processed, in Lake Butler, Fla., April 16, 2021. An AP investigation revealed state prison guards openly touting associations with white supremacist groups to intimidate inmates and Black colleagues, a persistent practice that goes unpunished and is allowed to fester in Florida and prisons elsewhere in the U.S. (AP Photo / David Goldman, File)

Vanessa Brooks poses for a portrait with her father, Lawrence Brooks, in his room at their home in New Orleans, Sept. 8, 2021. Lawrence Broooks is the oldest living U.S. World War II veteran; for the past 13 years, his daughter has been his primary caregiver, providing round-the-clock attention. (AP Photo / Kathleen Flynn)

A 33-year-old mother of three from central Texas is escorted down the hall by clinic administrator Kathaleen Pittman prior to getting an abortion at Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La., Oct. 9, 2021. The woman was one of more than a dozen patients who arrived at the abortion clinic, most from neighboringTexas, where the nation’s most restrictive abortion law remains in effect. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, special presidential envoy for climate, speaks during an interview with the AP at the U.S. State Department in Washington, Oct. 13, 2021. Kerry said any U.S. failure to get significant climate legislation through Congress “would be like President Trump pulling out of the Paris agreement, again.” (AP Photo / Patrick Semansky)

In this March 2, 2019 image from police dashboard camera video obtained by The Associated Press, Louisiana State Trooper Jacob Brown slams motorist DeShawn Washington against the hood of a police cruiser during a traffic stop in Ouachita Parish, La., after troopers found marijuana in the trunk of Washington’s car, in a March 2, 2019 image from police dashboard camera video obtained by the AP. Use of force was omitted from the police report. (Louisiana State Police via AP)

This image provided by NOAA taken Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021 and reviewed by The Associated Press shows Oil slicks are visible at the flooded Phillips 66 Alliance Refinery in Belle Chasse, La., in an Aug. 31, 2021 photo released by NOAA and reviewed by the AP. State and federal regulators responded to the spill site on the banks of the Mississppi River after AP provided the photos of the spill and the company acknowledged a “sheen of unknown origin” at its flooded refinery. (NOAA via AP)

Farmer John Boyd Jr., poses in front of a hay baler at his farm in Boydton, Va., May 27, 2021. “I’m owning land that many of my forefathers worked when it was scotch free. You know — slave labor, man,” says Boyd. “I’m just trying to make them proud.” Like other Black farmers, Boyd has encountered prejudice while trying to make a living on his 1,500 acres. (AP Photo / Steve Helber)

Aaron Larry Bowman cries during an interview at his attorney’s office in Monroe, La., Aug. 5, 2021, as he discusses his injuries resulting from a Louisiana State trooper beating him with a flashlight during a traffic stop in 2019. (AP Photo / Rogelio V. Solis)

A car is embedded in debris that washed up against a bridge over a stream in Waverly, Tenn., Aug. 22, 2021. Up to 17 inches (43 centimeters) of rain fell in parts of Middle Tennessee in less than 24 hours, a state record for one-day rainfall resulting in quick-rushing floods that killed at least 22 people and left a trail of destruction. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)