“The pain is too immense for one community to bear alone,” Joe Biden said Friday of the protests against police violence.
Joe Biden said Friday that Americans — white Americans, in particular — must be more than bystanders as the country struggles to address centuries of systemic racism.
, who called the protesters “thugs” and threatened that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Biden said he had spoken with members of Floyd’s family. He also mentioned the recent cases of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man killed in Georgia in February after being pursued by white men, and Breonna Taylor, a black woman shot and killed in Kentucky in March after police forcibly entered her home on a search warrant.
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