On Sunday, Biden visited the site of protesting in Wilmington, Delaware, that saw destruction, looting Saturday night.
Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden spent Sunday visiting the site of last night’s protests in his home town of Wilmington, Delaware, which—like many American cities—saw those protests lead into riots with looting and destruction Saturday night.... [+]
against the spread of the new coronavirus as he and Jill Biden depart after placing a wreath at the Delaware Memorial Bridge Veterans Memorial Park, Monday, May 25, 2020, in New Castle, Del. In a tweet acknowledging the visit, Biden took a much different tone than President Donald Trump, who has promoted aggressive pushback against the protesters.
"We are a nation in pain right now, but we must not allow this pain to destroy us,”Biden said."As President, I will help lead this conversation — and more importantly, I will listen, just as I did today visiting the site of last night's protests in Wilmington." The sight of Biden being out of his house has been a rare one lately, with the former vice president largely choosing to stay home as a precaution against the coronavirus.
Biden has condemned the violence seen amid protests, saying in a statement released Saturday that protesting is a right but “burning down communities and needless destruction is not."Sunday was the seventh day of widespread protests following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin held his knee to Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds, which was captured on video.
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