Biden Scorns Violence After Kenosha Shooting, Supports Protest
- ‘Burning down communities is not protest,’ Biden says in video
- Biden provides contrast to Trump in police shooting response
Former Vice President Joe Biden, Democratic presidential nominee, speaks during the Democratic National Convention in Wilmington, Delaware on Aug. 20, 2020.
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Joe Biden said Wednesday that he supported the peaceful protests that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin but denounced the “needless violence” that followed, including a fatal shooting overnight.
Repeating the same sentiments he expressed following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the Democratic presidential nominee said Wednesday that “protesting brutality is a right and absolutely necessary but burning down communities is not protest.”