Joe Biden said in a speech that the riots during the summer of 2020 were a “historic movement of justice.”
Riots swept across the United States following the death of George Floyd.
“After the historic movement for justice in the summer of 2020, I signed the most significant police reform executive order in history,” he said.
Biden on 2020 BLM/Antifa riots: “Historic movement for justice.”
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Biden also discussed his involvement in church during the speech.
“I’ve spent more time in the Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Delaware, than I have — than most people I know, Black or white, have spent in that church,” he said. “Because that’s where I started — no, I’m serious. It started with the Civil Rights Movement. I used to go to 7:30 mass, then I’d go to 10 o’clock cl- — 10 o’clock service with the reverend who was then running the church, who’s now the bishop.”
“The point is that I’ve been blessed to worship here before as well. You know — you know, it’s — at moments of joy and — great joy and moments of great pain, in moments of unbearable loss,” he added.
Pro-Palestine demonstrators later interrupted Biden’s speech, crying, “Ceasefire now!”
“If you really care about the lives lost here, then you should honor the lives lost and call for a ceasefire in Palestine,” an audience member said.
