« Peaceful protest? Understandable, » the president said.
President Joe Biden condemned looting and violence that has taken place in the aftermath of the police shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on Sunday. Wright, a Black man, died Sunday after he was shot by a police officer during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb. Outrage quickly gripped the city in the wake of the shooting, with many gathering to hold peaceful protests against the police. However, many also turned to looting, vandalizing dozens of stores in Brooklyn Center and the surrounding areas. « I want to make it clear again: there is absolutely no justification—none—for looting. No justification for violence. Peaceful protest? Understandable, » Biden told reporters on Monday in response to the situation. The president said that he’d viewed the body camera footage from the officer who shot Wright, describing it as « fairly graphic. » « We’ve spoken to the governor and the mayor, spoken to the authorities there and I haven’t called Daunte Wright’s family, but prayers are with their family. It’s really a tragic thing that happened, but I think we’ve got to wait and see what the investigation shows—the entire investigation. You’ve all watched, I assume, as I did, the film, which is really the body cam, which is fairly graphic.
