Former Vice President Joe Biden met with Jacob Blake's family during his campaign visit in Wisconsin by MattRyanPerez
According to Blake's attorney, Ben Crump, the Bidens met with Blake's father, sisters and brother in-person and also spoke with his mother and Jacob himself on the phone.
"They talked about changing the disparate treatment of minorities in police interactions, the impact of selecting Kamala Harris as a Black woman as his running mate and Vice President Biden's plans for change," Crump said in a statement. "What I came away with was the overwhelming sense of resilience and optimism they have about the kind of response they're getting," Biden later said of the meeting, according to Bloomberg News reporterThe Thursday meeting follows President Trump's visit to Kenosha on Tuesday, meeting with law enforcement and not Blake's family, who instead held a"Justice for Jacob" rally that included resources like Covid-19 testing and voter registration.
Thursday's visit is Biden's first official campaign stop in Wisconsin, a swing state in the upcoming presidential election."The family was grateful for the meeting and was very impressed that the Bidens were so engaged and willing to really listen," Crump's statement said.The Trump campaign has attempted to paint violence deriving from protests as"Biden's America" despite being in the fourth year of Trump's presidency. Wisconsin Gov.
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