Joe Biden Says He's Spoken With George Floyd's Family, Calls For Police Reform

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Source: huff post




05/29/2020 03:06 pm ET

The former vice president censured President Trump for his “incendiary tweets.”




Promising to bring real police reform if elected president, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Friday that he had spoken with the family of George Floyd, the African American man killed by Minneapolis police officers on Monday.

“The original sin of this country still stains our nation today,” the former vice president said in a video message from his Delaware home, referring to more than 400 years of “Black men, Black women, Black children” whose potential was “wiped out unnecessarily.”

“Everyday African Americans go about their lives with constant anxiety and trauma wondering who will be next ... The anger and frustration and the exhaustion is undeniable.”

Protests broke out nationwide after video showed a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck despite his pleas that he could not breathe. The officer, Derek Chauvin, was fired from his post after the incident and taken into custody Friday on murder and manslaughter charges...................................

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Biden is doing what Trump should have done.

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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, speaks at a primary night election rally in Columbia, South Carolina, on Feb. 29, 2020.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I can't imagine His Lardship calling George Floyd's family.

But maybe it's better that he doesn't. I remember what an insensitive mess he made of the phone call to the widow of the soldier who was killed in Niger. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/us/politics/soldiers-widow-says-trump-struggled-to-remember-sgt-la-david-johnsons-name.html

[Brother Buzz]

7. The orange anus did call him, but as a expected, the ass wasn't interested in listening

Speaking to MSNBC's Al Sharpton, George's brother, Philonise Floyd, said his conversation with President Trump was "so fast."

"He didn't give me an opportunity to even speak," Floyd 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.'

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/30/politics/george-floyd-brother-talks-trump/index.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Yes, I saw that. It reminded me a lot of when His Lardship offered "condolences"

to the widow of the soldier killed in Niger, and managed to make her feel even worse.

[Bengus81]

10. Wasn't really even interested in that SpaceX shot yesterday,the video of him and Pence shows clearly

He was just there for a quick photo op and then want to blow. Windy and humid, death sentence for that shit he calls "hair".

[Mr.Bill]

2. The difference between Biden and Trump

is that If it was my family, it isn't that Biden called and Trump didn't, It's that I would be honored to talk to Biden and I would hang up on Trump.

[FirstLight]

3. This is ALL Joe has to do to win... show us, REMIND US, what a TRUE President sounds like.

He can just keep acting like the Stateman he is and trump will flush himself down...

[Sugarcoated]

4. Man, is he gonna have a job ahead of him

[Sgent]

5. There aught to be a license and licensing board

for police. Just like teachers, nurses, etc. it would have investigatory powers, set standards and could revoke the licensure of anyone who violated those ethical standards -- including failure in professionalism, etc. Members should be made up of no more than 50% law enforcement or prosecutors.

This would take a lot of the local politics, including police unions, out of the equation. It would also give citizens and independent board to complain to. In addition, it would serve as a statewide repository of information, so no jumping from force to force when you get in trouble -- and make it much easier to do background checks, etc.

This could possibly be required under the 14th amendment.

[Lars39]

6. I like this idea.

[hydrolastic]

9. Good start. A call for general strike would put the current admin on its knees

...Just thinking out loud. Hydro