From Rolling Stone:
The Democratic candidate shared a photo of himself in Wilmington, Del., where he said there were protests the night before. Biden wrote in posts across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram about how the country needs to turn its “anguish to purpose.”
“We are a nation in pain, but we must not allow this pain to destroy us. We are a nation enraged, but we cannot allow our rage to consume us. We are a nation exhausted, but we will not allow our exhaustion to defeat us,” Biden wrote.
Biden continued, “The only way to bear this pain is to turn all that anguish to purpose. And 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.”
Conversely, Trump took to Twitter and retweeted someone who seemingly labeled all of the demonstrators as “bad guys” and advocated for violence from “good guys” to put a stop to the protests, while ignoring the many instances of police acting violently.
There’s more:
"You gotta get that crazy guy out of office, Biden," one man in a Delaware State University T-shirt can be heard saying in the video, referring to President Donald Trump. The group rotates to each take a photo with the former vice president. "Save us, save us. Please, save us," he adds.
In a statement released late Saturday evening, Biden empathized with protestors, acknowledging the pain and fury caused by racial injustice, but warned that "the act of protesting should never be allowed to overshadow the reason we protest."
"Protesting such brutality is right and necessary. It's an utterly American response. But burning down communities and needless destruction is not. Violence that endangers lives is not. Violence that guts and shutters businesses that serve the community is not," Biden said.
Biden revealed Friday that he spoke with the family of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died last week after being pinned down by a white police officer. The former vice president told CNN's Don Lemon that he offered the family empathy as someone who has lived through loss and praised their courage.
"I was truly impressed with their courage and their grace during this unimaginably painful time," Biden said.
"He didn't give me an opportunity to even speak," he said. "It was hard. I was trying to talk to him, but he just kept like pushing me off, like 'I don't want to hear what you're talking about'. And I just told him, I want justice. I said that I couldn't believe that they committed a modern day lynching in broad daylight," he said.
Also:
Campaign staff for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden are advertising their donations to a group that pays bail fees in Minneapolis after the city’s police jailed people protesting the killing of a black man by a white police officer.
At least 13 Biden campaign staff members posted on Twitter on Friday and Saturday that they made donations to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which opposes the practice of cash bail, or making people pay to avoid pre-trial imprisonment. The group uses donations to pay bail fees in Minneapolis.
Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement to Reuters that the former vice president opposes the institution of cash bail as a “modern day debtors prison.”
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