Obama’s statement represents another sharp criticism of President Donald Trump following his speech at the Democratic National Convention last week.
It also comes as violence in Kenosha has emerged as the new flashpoint of the 2020 White House race.
Trump and his allies have demanded the release of the riots and robberies that accompanied the city’s protests against racial injustice and police brutality.
The protests began after 29-year-old Jacob Black, a 29-year-old black man, was shot seven times in the back by a white police officer on Sunday.
Blake’s three children were in the back seat of his SUV when his father was shot.
On Tuesday, two protesters were shot dead and a third wounded in Kenosha, apparently by a young white man who was shot in the middle of the street with a semi-automatic rifle in a cellphone video.
Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old police fan from Illinois, was arrested Wednesday.
Prosecutors on Thursday charged him with first-degree intentional cow slaughter, a count of first-degree reckless cow slaughter, a count of first-degree intentional cow slaughter and a first-degree reckless risk.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that if Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, is elected in November, mob violence will descend on communities in the United States.
At this week’s Republican National Convention, both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence warned that “no one will be safe in Biden’s America.”
Other administration officials have also taken up the issue of violence in Kenosha, with White House Counsel Kelly Conway suggesting on Thursday that more unrest could help the president politically.
Conway said the more chaos and chaos and violence reigns, the better the choice is on who is best at public safety and law and order.
For his part, Biden uses a video Statement He also insisted on Wednesday that “burning communities is not a protest” for a peaceful end to racist police brutality.
On Thursday, Biden accused Trump of “pouring gasoline on the fire” of the country’s departments, and he reminded voters that “this belongs to Donald Trump’s America.”
Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris in a speech on Thursday similarly rebuked Trump’s response to the racial unrest, saying she believed an offense would be filed against the officer who shot Blake.
