Protesters, who did not wish to be identified, chant outside the Mississippi State Capitol building in Jackson, Miss. on Friday afternoon following comments made by Petal Mayor Hal Marx regarding the death of George Floyd on Monday in Minneapolis. – A white Mississippi mayor who caused an outrage with his tweets about the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has apologized but says he won’t resign, prompting protesters to return to City Hall for a third day Sunday to insist the mayor leave office. Floyd, 46, was handcuffed and pleading for air as a white police officer kneeled on his neck Monday. Police being crucified.”Marx told the newspaper that city aldermen and others had wrongly characterized the tweets as racist.