These 15 Photos Show The News You Might Have Missed This Week
Former president Donald Trump appears at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on April 4, 2023.
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Earlier this week, as you may have heard, former president Donald Trump was arraigned in Manhattan on 34 felony charges. Outside the courthouse was complete chaos, with BuzzFeed News reporter David Mack writing that it “was exactly as clownish as many had imagined it would be.”
BuzzFeed News also had cameras outside the court, along with virtually every other news outlet in the world, capturing demonstrators and the ensuing media circus. Inside the courtroom, a few select photographers had special access to capture Trump, who is the first US president to be arraigned on criminal charges.
Opposing demonstrators square off outside Manhattan Criminal Court during Trump's arraignment.
“When I saw that he was looking right at me, it was chilling,” said freelance photographer Steven Hirsch, who’s been capturing images of proceedings at the Manhattan Criminal Court for 18 years. “Seeing Trump’s arraignment in person was absolutely surreal.”
Hirsch and five other photographers had only 61 seconds to get their shot of the former president. “The whole thing was over in a second, but it seemed like an eternity,” Hirsch told BuzzFeed News.
Protests in Nashville
On April 3, thousands of student protesters descended on the Tennessee State Capitol during an anti-gun demonstration following March 27’s deadly school shooting. Students walked out of their classrooms at 10:13 a.m., the same time the fatal attack at the Covenant School began.
On Thursday, Tennessee's Republican-controlled Legislature expelled two Democrats, Reps. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones, from the state House of Representatives for taking part in gun control protests in the state capitol’s chamber last week.
A protester holds a shattered window mimicking a gunshot to his forehead, as students from across Nashville walked out of schools and gathered at the Tennessee State Capitol to demand action for gun reform laws, on April 3, 2023.
Student protesters hold up a sign as they wait to enter the state capitol during anti–gun violence demonstrations in Nashville, on April 3, 2023.
Little Rock Devastated
At least 32 people were killed as tornadoes tore through several states last week, including Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Little Rock, Arkansas, was hit particularly hard, with homes and commercial buildings flattened. An estimated 2,100 homes or businesses were in the tornado’s path.
An aerial view of a home without a roof in the aftermath of a tornado in Little Rock, Arkansas, on April 2, 2023.
More from around the world
In China, authorities on April 4 used controlled explosions to break up frozen parts of the Heilongjiang river on the China–Russia border. The demolition was to reduce possible flooding in surrounding towns and villages. The practice, which has been used in years past, attracts throngs of spectators.
Police officers use explosives to break up a section of the frozen Heilongjiang river on the China–Russia border in an effort to prevent floods in Huma County, Daxing'anling Prefecture, Heilongjiang Province of China, on April 4, 2023.
A person visits the National Museum of Contemporary Arts with their dog during a dog-friendly event ahead of the World Stray Animals Day, in Athens, on April 2, 2023.
A grocery seller waits for customers at the Feria de Ramos, or Palm Fair, in El Alto, Bolivia, on April 2, 2023.
Norway's Halvor Egner Granerud in action during the Ski Jumping World Cup in Planica, Slovenia, on April 2, 2023.
The aftermath of the derailment of a passenger train after it hit construction equipment on the track, in Voorschoten, Netherlands, on April 4, 2023.
People fly kites at Dongjiang Bay Beach in Tianjin, China, on April 5, 2023.
A bowling facility that was abandoned in 2016 is photographed prior to its demolition in Tamba, Japan, on April 5, 2023.
A koala is seen in Sydney, on April 6, 2023.
Residents of Ezbet Hamada in Cairo's Mataria district gather to eat Iftar, the meal to end their fast at sunset, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, on April 6, 2023.
The moon sets above the iconic Mont Saint-Michel in the French region of Normandy, on April 7, 2023.
