"We are not a nation that guns down our citizens in the street. We are not a nation that allows our citizens to be brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights. We are not a nation that tramples the fourth amendment and tolerates our neighbors being terrorized. He continued: Minnesotans have reminded us all what it is to be American, and they have suffered enough at the hands of this administration."
"Violence and terror have no place in the United States of America, especially when it's our own government targeting American citizens. In a barely veiled reference to Donald Trump, who is facing a mounting backlash over his administration's federal immigration enforcement tactics, Biden said: No single person can destroy what America stands for and believes in, not even a president, if we all of America stand up and speak out. We know who we are. It's time to show the world. More importantly, it's time to show ourselves."
"Biden called for full, fair and transparent investigations into the senseless killings of Pretti on Saturday and Renee Good earlier this month. Good was shot dead as she drove away from a federal immigration agent, which like Pretti's killing sparked widespread protest and scrutiny. Biden's latest statement joins condemnation from Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Obama for whom Biden was vice-president and Clinton urged Americans to speak out and warned that core American values were under assault amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis."
Joe Biden joined other former Democratic presidents in condemning the fatal shooting of 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis. The statements framed the killings as a betrayal of basic American values, a violation of due process, and an unacceptable use of violence by the government. Calls were made for full, fair and transparent investigations into Pretti's death and an earlier killing of Renee Good, which also sparked protests. The statements criticized federal immigration enforcement tactics and urged Americans to speak out. Biden has largely kept a low public profile while undergoing cancer treatment and working on his memoir and presidential library.
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