Thursday, March 28, 2024

Barack Obama and Joe Biden Speak Out on George Floyd Murder

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*Former US president, Barack Obama has had his say regarding the officer-involved killing of George Floyd in Minnesota. In fact, he went on to insist that racially-targeted killings in the United States “cannot be ‘normal’ in 2020.” He also called on Americans to work for a better future.

Obama’s Twitter statement urged Minnesota authorities to “ensure that the circumstances surrounding George Floyd’s death are investigated thoroughly.”

He also asked, “that justice is ultimately done.”

Here is Obama’s tweet in full:

Shortly after his tweet, it was confirmed that Derek Chauvin – the former police officer who knelt on Floyd during his arrest – had been taken into custody.

MORE NEWS: Minneapolis Police Station Torched As Violent Protests Continue Over George Floyd’s Death / VIDEO

In related news, a lot of people were also looking to hear what Barack Obama’s former vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden had to say about the incident as well.

On Friday Biden said he is “furious” over President Donald Trump “calling for violence against American citizens” (via an overnight tweet during the protests in Minneapolis over the death in police hands of a black man, George Floyd.

“Enough,” wrote Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, in a tweet thread responding to Twitter posts from Trump.

Biden said in remarks that were live-streamed on the Internet later Friday that he had spoken with Floyd’s family.

He called Floyd’s death “an act of brutality” that was just the latest in a series of injustices stemming from racism against black people, which Biden said was the “original sin” of the United States, which “still stains” the nation.

“An act of brutality so elemental, it did more than deny one more black man in America his civil rights and human rights. It denied him of his very humanity, it denied him of his life,” Biden said of Floyd.

“This is a national crisis, and we need real leadership right now,” Biden said. “We need justice for George Floyd. We need real police reform.”

Biden directly thanked Floyd’s family for talking to him and said, “I promise you, I promise you, we’ll do everything in our power to see that justice is had.”

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