The Democratic nominee and his wife Jill Biden entered a private meeting at the Milwaukee airport with several members of Blake's family, including his father and three siblings.
MILWAUKEE – US presidential hopeful Joe Biden met Thursday with relatives of Jacob Blake, the black father shot multiple times by a white police officer in Wisconsin in an incident that sparked days of violent unrest.
During his trip Trump did not meet or speak with the family of Blake, who survived the shooting but is likely paralyzed from the waist down. After talking with the Blakes, Biden travels south to nearby Kenosha where he will participate in a community meeting in an effort to "bring together Americans to heal and address the challenges we face," according to the campaign.Violent demonstrations occurred in May and June in Minneapolis, in the neighboring state of Minnesota, and elsewhere after a police officer there killed an unarmed black man, George Floyd, by kneeling on his neck for more than eight minutes.
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