Former Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that he spoke with the family of George Floyd. 'I was truly impressed with their courage and their grace during this unimaginably painful time.'
"I was truly impressed with their courage and their grace during this unimaginably painful time," Biden told CNN's Don Lemon on"The Situation Room."The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said he had spoken with Floyd's family about Saturday marking five years since his son Beau had died of brain cancer."I tried to give them some solace in terms of how the memory, the memory and meaning of George's life, would live with them," Biden said.
"More than 500 Minnesota National Guard personnel were mobilized to several locations in the Minneapolis area as protesters have looted businesses and late Thursday night set a police precinct on fire. In his earlier remarks, Biden spoke to the"constant anxiety and trauma" experienced by black people in America, and said,"Imagine if every time your husband or son, wife or daughter left the house, you feared for their safety from bad actors and bad police.
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