The former Vice President also called for lasting police reform and for Americans not to stay silent.
Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden addressed George Floyd’s death in a speech on Friday, criticizing President Trump’s response and calling on Americans to speak out and work towards lasting justice.... [+]AFP via Getty ImagesBiden kicked off the speech by saying he “just had an opportunity to speak with the Floyd family,” calling them a “close, decent, honorable family, loving one another.
“We are a country with an open wound,” Biden declared, calling on Americans to speak out about racism and police violence and not “fail victims with what Martin Luther King called the ‘appalling silence of good people.’ ”
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