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COVID-19 patient Joan Bronson walks across her hospital room with the help of a physical therapist at Ochsner Medical Center in the New Orleans suburb of Jefferson, La., Aug. 11, 2021. The rapidly escalating surge in COVID-19 infections is once again overwhelming hospitals across the U.S., especially in hot spots such as Louisiana., which is hitting record numbers of coronavirus hospitalizations, driven by the highly infectious delta variant and the state's low vaccination rates. (AP Photo/Stacey Plaisance)

A pickup truck with a Confederate-themed sticker is parked outside the Reception and Medical Center, Florida’s prison hospital where new inmates are processed, in Lake Butler, Fla., April 16, 2021. In 2013, at a prison dorm room in the facility, Warren Williams, a Black inmate who suffered from severe anxiety and depression fought and bit Thomas Driver, a white prison guard. When Williams was released a few months later, Driver and two fellow members of the Ku Klux Klan conspired to kill him. The KKK man they enlisted to do the killing was an FBI informant. (AP Photo / David Goldman)

FILE - In this April 9, 1988, file photo, Los Angeles police officers search one of seven people arrested for selling narcotics in South Central Los Angeles, April 9, 1988, as more than 1,000 police officers raided gang strongholds to attack on drug dealing and street violence in the nation’s second largest city. Fifty years ago President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. In the decades that followed, Black Americans, their families and their communities suffered disproportionately from harsh prison sentences and post-release restricitions. (AP Photo / Douglas C. Pizac, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump elbow bumps with former football star Herschel Walker during a Trump campaign rally in Atlanta, Sept. 25, 2020. Walker, a former star at the University of Georgia, is a coveted potential Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Georgia, but AP revealed previously unreported details of his turbulent past. (AP Photo / John Bazemore, File)

FILE - In this July 21, 1963, file photo, Gloria Richardson, head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, pushes a National Guardsman’s bayonet aside as she moves among a crowd of Black protesters to convince them to disperse in Cambridge, Md., July 21, 1963. Richardson, an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer whose determination not to back down while protesting racial inequality was captured in a photograph as she pushed away the bayonet of a National Guardsman, died Thursday, July 15, 2021, in New York, according to Joe Orange, her son in law. She was 99.   (AP Photo/File)

In this July 6, 2021, photo A sign indicates a sold patio furniture floor model at Valley View Farms in Cockeysville, Md., July 6, 2021. The garden supply store in suburban Baltimore has been waiting six months for a shipping container from Vietnam full of $100,000 worth of wicker and aluminum furniture. Half of the container has already been sold by showing customers photographs. The container should have arrived in February, but it reached U.S. waters on June 3 and recently docked in Long Beach, Calif. (AP Photo / Julio Cortez)

The remaining structure of the Champlain Towers South condo building is demolished by explosives, July 4, 2021, more than a week after it partially collapsed in Surfside, Fla. (AP Photo / Lynne Sladky)

The Wax Lake Outlet, right, and Wax Lake Delta, part of the Atchafalaya Basin, seen from 8,500 feet in an aerial photo in St. Mary Parish, La., May 25, 2021. Scientists from NASA are studying the delta; along with a half-dozen universities they aim to create computer models that can be used with satellite data to let countries around the world learn which parts of their dwindling deltas can be shored up and which are past hope. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

People view a partially collapsed building early Thursday, June 24, 2021, in the Surfside area of Miami, Fla. A partial building collapse in Miami caused a massive response early Thursday from Miami Dade Fire Rescue, according to a tweet from the department's account. Miami Dade Fire Rescue is conducting search and rescue. Authorities had no word yet on casualties, or details of how many people lived in the building. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

In this Saturday, May 23, 2020 image from Louisiana State Police body camera video, An unidentified law enforcement officer applies an electric weapon to the back of motorist Antonio Harris as officers restrain Harris after a high speed chase in Franklin Parish, La., May 23, 2020, in an image from Louisiana State Police body camera video. Troop F of the State Police, a 66-officer unit, has become notorious in recent years for alleged acts of brutality that have resulted in felony charges against some of its troopers.Troopers from the (Larry Shappley / Louisiana State Police via AP)