Biden calls the death of Daunte Wright a ‘god-awful shooting’
While meeting with members of the Congressional Black Caucus in the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Biden referred to the “god-awful shooting” of Daunte Wright after being stopped by police in Brooklyn Center, Minn.
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JOE BIDEN: Look, it's an honor to be with all of you today, and I know it's been a pretty painful week with the losses we've had, you know? A good friend, [? Steve ?] [? Hayseeds, ?] which I knew a long, long time, and to lose him is losing the peace of the-- I don't know what. Just losing a piece of something, and also, you know, Daunte Wright in Minnesota, that God awful shooting resulting in his death, and in the midst of an ongoing trial over the killing of George Floyd. And Lord only knows what's happened based on what the verdict will or will not be there, but we're in the business, all of us, [? meeting ?] and deliver some real change.
When we took office, I had a talk with Jim at length about this. Every single aspect of-- I signed the executive order. Every single aspect of our government, including every agency, has a primary focus dealing with equity. Not a joke. In the beginning, we talked in length about it, Jim.
And not only-- but we also have an awful lot of things we have to deal with. Not when it comes to police, when it comes to advancing the equality, economic opportunity. Cedric always says the thing that would drive him crazy is that everybody wouldn't want to talk about equity. In a black community, he'd talk about prisons. Well, that's part of it, man, but that's not-- it's about income.
It's about being able to earn a living, it's about being able to be in a position, where you have economic opportunity. So I look forward to discussing all these priorities, the CBC priorities, and the goals you have for the community. But quite frankly, the goals you have for the community are good for every community, every community, and I like to spend some time on the American Jobs Act, which I think some of you actually helped me put that together with the ideas you gave me early on.
And I think we can make significant, significant changes. In the last little bit of legislation to help in the past, we reduced child poverty, and we reduced poverty in black communities significantly just by that act alone. One of my objectives there is-- overall objective is make those changes permanent. You will [INAUDIBLE] for a long time, pal, so anyway, we've got a lot to talk about. And I'm looking forward to having this meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus, and I think we can get a lot done.
