Wednesday February 28, Our World in Pictures

February 28, 2018 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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GERMANY – Boats in the Frozen Sea: In this picture taken with a drone, boats anchor in the frozen Baltic Sea harbor of Kirchdorf, eastern Germany, Tuesday.

GUATEMALA – Archbishop Funeral Procession: Flower petals land on the coffin of Guatemala’s late Archbishop Oscar Julio Vian Morales during his funeral procession outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in Guatemala City, Tuesday. Vian, an outspoken critic of corruption in the Central American nation, died on Feb. 24 after battling cancer for months.

NEW YORK – Bomb Detecting Device: An Amtrak police officer uses a QinetiQ SPO-NX suicide vest-detection device to reveal a suspicious object on a man, at left, during a Transportation Security Administration demonstration in New York’s Penn Station, Tuesday. The machines screen people at a distance without slowing them down. If a potential threat is detected, it will trigger an alarm on an operator’s laptop.

GEORGIA – Remembering Lynching: Tyrone Brooks, a veteran civil rights activist, stands behind the tombstone of Mae Murray Dorsey who was killed in a 1946 lynching by a white mob in Monroe, Ga., Thursday. Even if no one is ultimately prosecuted for the deaths of Roger and Dorothy Malcom and George and Mae Murray Dorsey, it’s important to know what happened and who was involved, said Brooks. Nonetheless, he said the closure of the investigations won’t stop him. “Our resolve is as strong as it’s ever been,” Brooks said.