Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, at Delaware Memorial Bridge Veterans Memorial Park earlier this month, spoke from his home in Delaware where he has been during the coronavirus pandemic.Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, at Delaware Memorial Bridge Veterans Memorial Park earlier this month, spoke from his home in Delaware where he has been during the coronavirus pandemic.Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, described the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died after police pinned his neck to the ground for several minutes, as an"act of brutality.
"Once again — the words 'I can't breathe.' An act of brutality so elemental, it did more than deny one more black man in America his civil rights and his human rights. It denied his very humanity. It denied him of his life," Biden said Friday. Biden, speaking from his home in Delaware where he has been during the coronavirus pandemic, said the incident should be a moment of reckoning for the nation. Biden said he had spoken with the Floyd family, describing them as a"close, decent, honorable family.""The pain is too immense for one community to bear alone. I believe it's the duty of every American to grapple with it and grapple with it now," Biden said via livestream.
"With our complacency, our silence, we are complicit in perpetuating these cycles of violence. Nothing about this will be easy or comfortable, but if we simply allow this wound to scab over once more without treating the underlying injury, we'll never truly heal. The very soul of America is at stake."
“You ain’t black”
Silence is consent
Joe2020 JoeBiden Your interview was really disappointing. EVERYONE knows where Trump stands on the issue -and now he’s giving the 1 min of empathy to try and capture the minority vote. Show some guts Tell us where you are centered.
Didn’t he and other neo liberals perpetuate this injustice to communities of color in the nineties? He has taken ownership of that crime bill nor has he truly pleaded for forgiveness the way we saw a man plea for air.
Why aren't you calling for justice for Tara against the rapist pedophile Pedo Joe?
Emit Till! Still going on!
we can always count on Joe Biden to make things worse and too another one from the left-wing media memory hole
Not so much ‘An Act of Brutality’ as ‘the act of murder’.
I don’t want to be silent
This also happened under Obama.
They will ruin themselves NationalGuard shouldnt go in to protect them from looting & shooting themselves especially bc majority are “refugees” from his ObamaAdmin THEY ARE HOMEGROWN TERRORISTS they just need to be sent back
How many murdered black lives that have warranted a “reckoning” are we up to now? This “reckoning” is really starting to seem the equivalent of, “thoughts and prayers.” How about a plan JoeBiden? Let’s not wait for another reckoning.
Is this comment intended to inspire justice or race war? Where is the fury about the black on black murders which represent more than 90% of those tragic deaths.
JoeBiden is deeply systemically racist! We know that from his long history of such and his most recent comments! He literally said a person “ain’t black”if you don’t want to vote for him.
Yeah if Joe would ever get in power he'd stop all this hogwash! Lets vote him in so he has a chance to fix racism!
Joe and Democrat party perpetuating racism, to try and get back those black votes they've lost to POTUS. Lots of Whites in THUG group, but MSM didn't report Democrat leaders Waited 4 days to do ANYTHING...allowed 170 businesses to be destroyed, to further their cause.
I want to hear Joe say 'fuck me, mack'
As I like to say what did Obama/Biden do in their eight years to solve these issues beside giving speeches. Zip, Nothing
So was the 94 crime bill
Really? He also said he couldn't tell which woman was his wife and which was his sister. He also said he was running for the Senate. Why in the name of all that is Holy are you quoting THAT guy on ANYTHING? Have you really not noticed that he's lost his marbles? That's NPR...
Biden looks like a complete crook that he has always been.
I always find it rich when people who helped further oppress minorities take a morale high ground.JoeBiden you had decades to do better, and you haven’t done much. What would being president change? If that’s the only way you can do anything, it’s going to be an easy pass for me
There is no complacency, there is no silence, and there no complicity. Someone please help that Alzheimers patient.
Lmao looks like a dead body in a casket
Nice virtue signaling, hacks.
Yeah wake up white people who don’t like this. It’s up to us.
He says that but his actions say different
Joe had 8 years with Obama, they didnt do a damn thing. How just trying to get black vote
You are correct Sir. Please Help🙏💖
Was Biden able to produce an intelligent sensible comment on this without reading a teleprompter?
January of 1973 until January of 2017, this man was in DC as either a US Senator or VP. How many ‘reckonings’ did he fail to act on?
I know better.
Literally nobody is being silent or saying it's okay, you old buffoon.
He is a major part of all this, Biden is greatly at fault for what he’s done. He’s litterally responsible lol
Like the 1994 Crime Bill he pushed so hard that skyrocketed black incarceration rates. Oh my once beloved NPR, my memory hasn’t faded and neither has yours. That indicates that you are simply disingenuous.
Oh, he's definitely complicit.
9596_bulls I wonder if he feels the same about this...spitballing here but I’m guessing no—
Say what you will about Biden, but this new look is badass
Joe Biden just admitted being complicit? Someone make the arrest.
How many “reckoning” does America needs to change .... 155 years since Lincoln emancipation... thousand, of thousand, of thousand of Reckoning... AMERICA WILL NOT CHANGE TILL IT ADDRESS ITS ORIGINAL-SIN. We don’t need speeches, or prayers fuck that .... we need action.
Lol...
Democrats always calling for a “reckoning.” They never do anything about their failing Democrat-run cities, but by God, we’ll have “a reckoning!”
He only had four decades to get some changes made.
Yeah right. How convenient. 😤
Every President since 1877, with the exception of JFK and LBJ, are responsible for this tragedy. Obama tried but in the end it didn’t work. We need to fix racism once and for all, on all levels. It starts with each one of us!
If you don’t believe joe then you ain’t black
Where was this when Ferguson was on fire? I mean, this shit gets old.
So republicans you’re ok with all this?
every murder by police brutality should be a reckoning for this country but it never is, the pigs just get off with qualified immunity, get awarded back pay, and the same job at another precinct.
Wutan Joe would know
Joe 'Nothing will fundamentally change' Biden said that?
I want him to be my President.
Typical. We must feel collective guilt. The only people who are complacent are the Democratic leadership who only charged the Chauvin after the mob torched half the town.
Biden is responsible for some of the bs laws in place that let the police have hayday
This guy won't take that mask off now. He must show he is the anti Trump in all things...
That's a nothing sentence
Nobody cares what Joe has to say....
any friend of 'batman' is friend of mine !
And yet his number 1 pick for VP? The former DA who didn’t prosecute Floyd’s murderer when he had killed an unarmed Native man. Amy Klobuchar is trash and so is Joe Biden.
Thanks lifelong politician Joe.
Those old soft wrinkled ears don't have the structural integrity to keep his mask up. LOL.
You should have a word with amyklobuchar
How things can change in one week.
Biden just seems irrelevant.
meanwhile trump
Where was Biden before he was trying to be Pres? I couldn't tell you. Maybe getting that Burisma money
That will never happen = death sentence CAN ONLY BE APPLIED when or while death occurs while Commiting ANOTHER VIOLENT felony in the process (robbery rape ECT) GeorgeFloydWasMurdered yes he WAS 3rd degree murder sets path for 1st degree manslaughter JonathanTurley PressSec
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