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Sarah Eames | The Daily Star Jimmie and Roni Dayton from Oneonta shout at Black Lives Matter demonstrators from across the street during a rally at the Bainbridge Village Green on Saturday, Aug. 15.
Sarah Eames | The Daily Star Laurens resident Sadie Starr Lincoln, then 18, who organized a Justice for George Floyd rally Sunday, May 31, addresses a crowd of hundreds at Muller Plaza in Oneonta.
Communities large and small across The Daily Starâs four-county coverage area joined the wave of protests and demonstrations that swept the country this summer in the wake of the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.