Washington – In her first solo speech as a nominee for Democratic Vice President, Senator Kamala Harris said to stand with the Protestants in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as many in the country play by Jacob Blake’s police shooting party, an unarmed black man in Wisconsin on Sunday.
“We also see pain, hurt and destruction in the aftermath of yet another black man shot by police. Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back throughout the day for his three young sons,” he said. Harris during her Thursday address. “People are justifiably angry and exhausted. And after the murders of Breonna and George and Ahmaud and so many others, it’s no wonder people are taking to the streets. And I support them.”
Harris, who delivered her remarks at George Washington University to a socially distant press corps, not far from her residence in Washington and blocks away from the White House, where President Trump will address the Republican National Convention Thursday night.
The California senator spoke with feeling about the shootings of unarmed black people who came to light in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. She promised that during a Biden-Harris administration, the families of those shot by police “would have a seat at the table – in the halls of Congress and in the White House.”
“Justice: let’s talk about it, because the reality is that the life of a black person in America has never been treated as fully human, and we still need to fulfill this promise of equal justice under law,” Harris told U.S. flags. and gesture to accentuate their points.
The California senator also condemned the bursts of violence that followed Blake’s shooting. “We must always defend peaceful protest and peaceful Protestants. We must not confuse them with those looting and violence, including the shooter who was arrested for murder. And make no mistake, we will not derail these vigilantes and extremists. to justice. ”
Harris’ focus on police action was in contrast to Wednesday’s speech delivered by Vice President Pence, who highlighted persecution for responsibility for vandalism and destruction.
“President Trump and I will always support the right of Americans to protest peacefully. But rioting and looting is not a peaceful protest,” Pence said. “Breaking down statues is not free speech, and those who do are prosecuted in full force of the law.”
Hours before the convention address of Mr.
The nature of a pandemic, she began, is that it is “relentless”.
“You can not stop it with a tweet,” Harris said. “You can not make a distraction and hope it will go away.”
“President Trump did it wrong in the beginning,” she continued. “And then, he did it wrong again – and again. And the consequences have been catastrophic.”
And she offered an explanation as to why Mr. Trump reacted as he did.
“He was convinced that if his administration targeted him with this virus, it would hurt the market and his chances would be re-elected,” she said. “That did him more than save American lives.”
“Donald Trump has failed in the most basic and important task of a President of the United States: he failed to protect the American people – simply and simply,” Harris said in her speech Thursday, “Trump showed that we are in ‘ the legal profession would call it a reckless contempt for the welfare of the American people. “
That contempt, she argued, resulted in allowing the pandemic to spread to “color communities that have been structured racism for generations.”
Harris’ speech was hailed as the Democratic pre-rebuttal on the last day of the Republican convention, in addition to Joe Biden’s seemingly improvised bookings for two cable news interviews earlier Thursday from his beach house in Delaware.
The Democratic presidential candidate appeared to support the ongoing strikes of professional sports teams in an effort to influence change to racial justice.
“What Trump knows and he will not acknowledge is that many of these men and women – they have brothers, sisters, men, women who are victims just because of their color. Just because of their color,” Biden told CNN. “These are not people who are really just trying – they don’t need any more attention – they are sick and tired. They are sick and tired.”
Biden also reiterated his promise Wednesday to Jacob Blake’s family that “justice must and will be done.”
Biden has this week now at least three times condemned the sporadic violent demonstrations of looting and burning of property by some in Kenosha after the shooting, however he accused in the MSNBC interview President Trump of encouraging further destruction.
“He just keeps fuel on fire,” Biden said, noting that the president “roots for more violence, not less,” just for a “political advantage.”
He said he looks forward to presiding over the president on his record in the next three presidential debates. “I will be a fact check on the floor while I debate about him,” he said.
There may soon be more speeches from the Democratic ticket that require some travel – Biden told MSNBC he would be willing to go to Wisconsin to meet with residents about racial equality.
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