Biden says officers must be held ‘fully accountable’ in George Floyd’s death
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Former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday insisted that the police officers involved in the case of a black man in Minnesota who died after being pinned to the ground with a knee to his neck need to be held “fully accountable.”
And the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee called for an “independent Department of Justice civil rights investigation … to get to the root of all this.”
The controversy exploded Monday night with a video showing police arresting 46-year-old George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn. The video shows a white police officer kneeling on Floyd's neck as he was pinned to the ground for several minutes.
“I can’t breathe! Please, the knee on my neck,” Floyd is heard saying in the video. “Please, I can’t breathe.”
He died a short time later at a nearby medical facility.
The video – recorded by a bystander – went viral across the nation on early Tuesday – sparking protests.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said on Tuesday that all four officers at the scene were terminated and that he had asked the FBI to investigate.
Biden – speaking at the top of a virtual event with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf – highlighted that he’s “glad the mayor of Minneapolis stepped up right away in the police department and took swift action to fire the officers involved.”
But the former vice president emphasized that “I don't think that's enough. They have to be held more fully accountable, including the FBI investigatio... (Read more)
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