Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday he spoke and promised "justice" to the family of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old African-American who was seriously injured by police on Sunday in Wisconsin with several bullets in the back. "Once again a black man (Jacob Blake) was shot by police. His children watched. It makes me sick," Joe Biden wrote in a Twitter post accompanied by a video message. . "I spoke a little earlier to Jacob's mother and father, his sister and other family members and told them that justice must and will be served," he said. there in the video.
Once again, a Black man - Jacob Blake - was shot by the police. In front of his children. It makes me sick.
Is this the country we want to be?
Needless violence won't heal us. We need to end the violence - and peacefully come together to demand justice. pic.twitter.com/WdNqrxA3PK
"To speak out against brutality is a right"
"Our hearts are with his family, especially his children. What they saw was horrible: their father was shot," he adds. The former vice-president of Barack Obama, who enjoys a good popularity rating among the African-American electorate, also evokes the anti-racism demonstrations, sometimes interspersed with violence, which have resumed in recent days in several American cities, three months after the death of George Floyd under the knee of a white policeman in Minneapolis. "To speak out against brutality is a right and an absolute necessity. But to set fire to public goods is not to demonstrate, it is unnecessary violence", judge Joe Biden.
President Donald Trump, whom he will face at the polls on November 3, announced earlier on Wednesday the dispatch of police reinforcements and National Guard soldiers to fight against "looting" and "anarchy" in Kenosha, the city of Wisconsin where police fired on Jacob Blake on Sunday. Two people were also killed there during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday on the sidelines of the demonstrations. The suspect, a 17-year-old teenager, was arrested.