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The Trump campaign website has a banner for supporters to RSVP to the Tulsa rally, but they don’t want to be held liable if anyone gets sick at the event. Coronavirus cases are on the rise in at least a dozen states; Tulsa County has seen 1,372 cases and 62 deaths, according to the New York Times.In addition to being home to one of the worst racist massacres in American history, Tulsa is where Terence Crutcher, an unarmed Black man, was shot and killed by Tulsa police officer Betty Jo Shelby in 2016. Shelby was charged with first-degree manslaughter but was ultimately acquitted; last year, she was hired by the National Rifle Association to teach a lesson in pistol shooting.This week, Bynum apologized for recent comments in which he blamed Crutcher’s death more on the “insidious nature of drug utilization” than on race. The city’s police department is also facing a fresh round of criticism after police body camera footage showed officers handcuffing two Black teenage boys for the alleged crime of jaywalking. Police have said that an internal investigation has been launched.Cover: Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum takes part in a news conference about local response to the coronavirus pandemic at the Tulsa Police Department's COMPSTAT conference room in Tulsa, Okla., on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. (Tom Gilbert/Tulsa World via AP)