In a speech in Philadelphia on Tuesday June 2, former Barack Obama vice president and White House candidate Joe Biden accused Donald Trump of making the United States a "battlefield". The Democratic presidential candidate has promised to do everything to "heal racial wounds" if he wins in November. 

Donald Trump "has turned this country into a battlefield, divided by old resentments and new fears. He thinks the division is helping him [to win the presidential election on November 3]," said the Democrat, who leads him in the polls.

Joe Biden denounced the dispersion Monday of "peaceful demonstrators" with "tear gas and stun grenades" to allow Donald Trump to carry out a "communication operation" by going to a church near the White House, bible by hand. 

"Police reform"

"The time has come for our country to tackle institutional racism," he added, urging Congress to act this month, "starting with real police reform."  

Filmed by passers-by, the homicide of George Floyd outraged the country and the world and provoked demonstrations across the United States which sometimes degenerated into riots. 

With AFP

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