Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden reiterated his disapproval of violence after a man was shot dead in Portland on Saturday and called on President Donald Trump to join him in condemning violence on all sides of politics.
“The fatal violence we saw overnight in Portland is unacceptable,” Biden said on a Sunday. “Shooting on the streets of one of the major American cities is unacceptable. I condemn this violence unequivocally. I condemn violence of any kind through anyone, whether left or right.”
“And I Donald Trump to do the same.”
Biden’s arrives as he prepares to deliver a speech in Pittsburgh where, according to an Array crusade, he will ask the electorate “Are you safe in Donald Trump’s United States?”and ‘offer another vision for a better future’. Biden has rarely left his home for the crusade since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
The fatal shooting in Portland occurred in clashes between an organization of Trump supporters and protesters. The victim was a member of the right-wing Organization Patriot Prayer. His death came here days after Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was accused of shooting at three protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, adding two dead. The three demonstrators were shot dead in protests opposed to police brutality after the video showed police shooting a black guy in the back of Jacob Blake in an incident in Kenosha.
Many Democrats, adding Biden, have accused Trump of stirring up the situation.On Sunday morning, after the fatal confrontation, Trump commented in a tweet that a caravan of his supporters appeared driving in Portland, calling them “BIG PATRIOTS!”in clashes with protesters.
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Over the weekend, the president released an avalanche of tweets denouncing the protesters, calling for a crackdown to prevent them, and appearing videos of protesters involved in violence, as well as a video of a black man pushing a white woguy who appeared to be connected to Array at a rally in New Hampshire on Friday, rejected the concept of nonviolent protesters.
“They’re protesters,” Trump told the crowd. “They are anarchists. They’re agitators. They’re troublemakers. They’re looters.”
But Trump did not condemn Rittenhouse’s violence and liked a tweet that said the teen’s movements were justified. On Sunday, he tweeted “Rest in Peace” to the victim of the Portland shooting, but did not provide condolences for the protesters killed in Kenosha.
On his Sunday, Biden denounced Trump for not “asking his supporters to avoid the pursuit of conflict” and said Trump believes that “war on our streets is smart for his chances of re-election.”
“It doesn’t matter if you consider the political criticism of its parties to the conflict to be abhorrent, any loss of life is a tragedy,” Biden said. “We won’t have to be a country at war with ourselves. A country that accepts the murder of fellow citizens who disagree with you. A country that takes revenge on each other. But this is the America that President Trump needs us to do.” be, the America that he thinks we are.”
Biden went on to say that “we will have to condemn the incitement to hatred and resentment that led to this fatal confrontation” before attacking Trump again.
“What does President Trump think will happen when he continues to insist on stoking the flames of hatred and department in our society and the politics of concern to agitate his supporters? Recklessly encourages violence.”
Biden said a president tries to “lower the temperature” and “bring in combination other people who disagree with each other.”
Trump and his representatives have denounced Biden for failing to denounce violent protesters, despite Biden’s repeated appeals for protesters to remain at peace.
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After George Floyd was killed while in Minneapolis police custody, prompting a large wave of protests against police brutality and racism, Biden issued a May 30 denouncing destruction and violence.
“It is right and necessary to protest against such brutality. That’s a very American answer. But the burning of communities and unnecessary destruction is not. Violence that puts lives at risk is not. Violence that destroys and shuts down businesses that serve the network is not,” “The protest will never be allowed to overshadow why we are protesting. It does not take others away from the just cause that the protest intends to promote,” Biden said.
On July 28, Biden said protesters who break the law will be “found, arrested and tried.”
“We never allow what is done in an equivalent rights march to succeed on the explanation of the march,” Biden said. “And that’s what those other people do.”
“Burning communities is not a protest, it is unnecessary violence, violence that puts lives at risk, violence that destroys businesses and shuts down businesses that serve the community.That’s not true,” Biden said in a video on August 26.
Despite the allegations, Trump and his supporters said Biden had not opposed violent protesters. Hours after Biden Sunday, Trump criticized the former vice president in a tweet.
“When is Slow Joe Biden going to criticize the anarchists, thugs and aggressors in ANTIFA?” Trump asked. When will the National Guard rise on BADLY RUN?
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