Police Chief Will smith takes a knee at a joint press conference with Mayor Levar M. stoney on Tuesday outside City Hall where they apologized to the crowd for police using tear gas and pepper spray on a peaceful crowd on Monday night at the Lee statue.

Mayor Stoney gives a fist-bump to a protester in the crowd Tuesday evening after walking with the throng from the state Capitol to the Lee statue on Monument Avenue.

Nasiah Morris, 4, carries a sign with a powerful message during sunday’s peaceful grassroots march from Brown’s Island to the 17th street Market in shockoe Bottom. The youngster, kneeling at 9th and Grace streets across from the Capitol, attended the rally with her mother, Toya Morris, and 15-year-old brother, Tye.

Tangelic Ellis holds her sign high as she stands in Monroe Park at the first protest in Richmond over the death of George Floyd. The 20-year-old Northern Virginia resident joined hundreds who took the protest to city streets.

The flood of protesters, most masked against the coronavirus, turned off Broad Street and flow onto 2nd Street on their way to the State Capitol in what was then a peaceful action.

Daylight reveals the spray-painted pedestal of the Robert E. Lee statue at Monument and Allen avenues.

The statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis sports a noose, the remnant of a rope someone unsuccessfully sought to use to pull down the statue.

The burned out hulk of a GRTC Pulse bus was still at Belvidere and Broad streets as the sun rose — one of the most visible signs of the violence that took over the protest Friday night.

Paul Trible, owner of menswear and shirtmaker Ledbury, looks out of the glassless window of his storefront at 315 W. Broad St., one of the Downtown stores that was looted.

Kenyan Smith speaks passionately about the issues at a protest that brought people to Shockoe Bottom, as one of the organizers, Quiara Holmes, assists with the mega phone.

People march peacefully, but with passion, through the city to get to the event.

Protesters participating in a peaceful demonstration react to being hit by Richmond Police with tear gas and pepper spray on Monument Avenue at the Robert E. Lee statue on Monday about 30 minutes before the city’s curfew.

Protesters participating in a peaceful demonstration react to being hit by Richmond Police with tear gas and pepper spray on Monument Avenue at the Robert E. Lee statue on Monday about 30 minutes before the city’s curfew.

in the midst of the crowd gathered Tuesday at the Lee statue, Kyle Rudd paints a picture honoring George Floyd of Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor of Louisville, both victims of police violence. The march and rally around him on Tuesday was peaceful.

It took months of preparation but only 16 seconds for the former headquarters of Dominion Energy at One James River Plaza in Down- town to be turned into rubble at 7 a.m. last Saturday to make way for a possible new office tower. The 21-story building at 701 E. Cary St. was imploded, a method that allows the floors to collapse onto themselves.

Nine nearly simultaneous explosions were triggered to bring the 42-year-old building down, leaving the debris for workers and heavy equipment to remove. The implosion was rated a success; there were no reports of damage to nearby buildings or city utilities. Scores of people found vantage points outside the 15-block safety zone to see the event live, while others watched on TV or via Dominion’s lives- tream. Dominion is contemplating plans to construct a new building on the site. Already, the company has erected the first of two towers next door at 600 E. Canal St. and has approval to build a matching tower on the site where One James River Plaza stood.

Colorful cardinal in the West End