Joe Biden spoke privately with the family of Jacob Blake, a black man seriously injured by police in Wisconsin, his campaign team said. The Democratic candidate for the White House must then go to Kenosha.
Jill Biden is also attending the meeting with the family of the 29-year-old African-American who was shot seven times at close range, an act that rioted in Kenosha, key state Wisconsin last week. Donald Trump had visited the city on Tuesday but without meeting the family or giving his name.
The journalists could not attend the meeting, organized at midday with also the lawyers of the Blake family. Joe Biden did not respond to questions they threw at him on the tarmac. According to his team, the former vice-president of Barack Obama speaks in person with the father, two sisters and a brother of Jacob Blake, while his mother attends the meeting by phone.
Jacob Blake is hospitalized and paralyzed from the feet to the waist. The images of his arrest on August 23 revived the protest movement against racism and police violence, which degenerated into three nights of riots in Kenosha.
Tension in Kenosha peaked on August 25, when a 17-year-old fired a semi-automatic rifle at three protesters, killing two. His arrest the next day brought back a precarious calm.
Donald Trump refused to condemn the actions of this young man, Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with premeditated murder. During his visit to Kenosha, a town of 100,000 on the shores of Lake Michigan, the Republican president who made the return of ‘law and order’ his big campaign message had inspected the ruins of burnt down shops , thanked the police and equated violent demonstrations with ‘internal terrorism’.
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