Hoo boy he actually said it https://t.co/J9bqkPFHV9
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 11, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden said on Thursday that even the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. did not have the same global impact as the killing of George Floyd in police custody last month has.
Speaking at a roundtable discussion in Philadelphia, Biden 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 of television 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.”
“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.”
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