Joe Biden visited a Black Lives Matter protest site in Delaware as Trump rages on Twitter against demonstrators

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• Former Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday made an unannounced visit to a site in Wilmington, Delaware where protests against police brutality and racism took place the night before. 
• Leaving his home for the second time in a week, Biden recognized the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed in Minneapolis police custody last week.
• "The original sin of the country still stains our nation today," Biden said in a video released Friday. "We need justice for George Floyd." 
• Meanwhile, President Donald Trump repeatedly attacked protesters and threatened violence against them on Twitter. 
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Former Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday made an unannounced visit to a site in Wilmington, Delaware where protests against police brutality and racism took place the night before.

Leaving his home for the second time in a week, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee recognized the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed in Minneapolis police custody last week. His campaign posted a photo of Biden kneeling on the ground facing a black man also kneeling with his young son. 

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