Biden says Floyd death having bigger global impact than MLK assassination
By Max Greenwood - 06/11/20 03:17 PM EDT
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday said that he thinks the killing of George Floyd in police custody last month is having a greater global impact than even the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King.
Speaking at a roundtable discussion in Philadelphia, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president said that the advent of smartphones had allowed the reality of police brutality against people of color to spread like it never has before, comparing it to how the rise in the number of homes with televisions in the 1960s showed Americans the police violence that marked the civil rights movement.
“Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,†Biden said. “It’s just like television changed the Civil Rights movement for the better when they saw Bull Connor and his dogs ripping the clothes off of elderly black women going to church and firehoses ripping the skin off of young kids.â€
“What happened to George Floyd — now you got how many people around the country, millions of cell phones. It’s changed the way everybody’s looking at this,†he continued. “Look at the millions of people marching around the world.â€
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