Florida authorities are seeking the individuals who used an interstate overpass to stage a mock lynching with a mannequin in a police uniform and pig mask, according to reports. Deputies pulled down the mannequin Saturday morning after responding to the overpass on I-95 in Jacksonville for a possible suicide. They found “KKK” scrawled on it, KHQ-TV reported. The manequin also had NYPD patches. The mock lynching of a law enforcement officer was “extremely disturbing,” Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said on Facebook. “Both the tactics and props used were a deliberate attempt to exasperate an anti-police sentiment and drive a divide in our community,” he said. "This incident was carried out by people wanting to undermine our dedicated efforts to keep our city safe." Mayor Lenny Curry tweeted that he wouldn’t let “an appalling and disturbing act like this derail our progress.”

Stuttgart, Germany, today.

⚠️ #WANTED! For an ASSAULT on 6/17/2020 6:15 P.M., on the suthbound “B” “D” train 174-175 street subway station. Reward up to $2500. Seen him? Know who he is? Call 1-800-577-TIPS or DM. Calls are CONFIDENTIAL! New York City police are searching for a man in connection to the assault on a 73-year-old woman who was punched in the face while standing on a subway platform last week. The incident happened around 7:15 p.m. on June 17 at the 174-175th Street station in the Bronx. The woman was waiting on the Manhattan-bound side of the platform when a man walked up to her and punched her in the side of her face before fleeing the station, police said. He did not speak or have any interaction with the victim before the attack. The woman was treated at Bronx Care Hospital for pain and swelling, police said.

Solar eclipse, view from the ISS, today.

A raging wildfire burning northeast of Phoenix, Ariz., now the largest active fire in the nation, is also in the record books after becoming one of the largest in state history as the blaze consumed another 10,000 acres as of Sunday morning. Officials from the Tonto National Forest said Sunday the blaze, known as the Bush Fire, has scorched some 184,531 acres as of Sunday morning, up from 174,529 acres the day before. Officials said the blaze is only 15 percent contained. The National Weather Service (NWS) office in Phoenix said that the blaze is now the fifth-largest wildfire in state history. The Bush Fire underwent explosive growth last week, doubling in size from Tuesday to Wednesday and forcing thousands to evacuate. Satellite imagery from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) shows the fire and smoke from the Bush Fire, one of three major blazes currently burning in Arizona.

The #NYPD on Sunday suspended an officer after video emerged showing police using an apparent chokehold to make an arrest on a Queens boardwalk. Anthony Beckford, a city council candidate, put the video on Twitter claiming the officers were “performing an Illegal modern day lynching chokehold on a Black Man until he was unconscious. “Accountability in policing is essential. After a swift investigation by the Internal Affairs Bureau, a police officer involved in a disturbing apparent chokehold incident in Queens has been suspended without pay,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said in a statement, without naming the officer or specifying his role in the arrest. “While a full investigation is still underway, there is no question in my mind that this immediate action is necessary.”