Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, moments after shocking police video was released showing an Illinois officer fatally shooting Sonya Massey after she called police fearing a home intruder.

In his first public statement since dropping his bid for re-election, Biden said the shooting of Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, by white Sangamon county sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson, in her home in Springfield, after a dispute over a pot of boiling water, “reminds us that all too often Black Americans face fears for their safety in ways many of the rest of us do not”.

Biden, who is recovering from Covid at his home in Delaware, said Massey, “a beloved mother, friend, daughter and young Black woman … should be alive today”.

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    4 months ago

    Nobody told you not to be angry, so not sure why you’re so defensive.

    Because I may as well be advocating for Trump to get elected the way some folks are reacting

    Don’t take everything so personally.

    Possibly the oldest insult on the internet aside from asking someone if they are twelve. God forbid folks be passionate about something.