Joe Biden on Thursday compared the death of George Floyd to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, saying Floyd’s death had a bigger global "impact" than King’s. At an economic reopening roundtable in Philadelphia, the former vice president spoke of how the advent of smartphones had precipitated global participation in the movement against police brutality and racial injustice. “Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did,” Biden said. “What happened to George Floyd — now you got how many people around the country, millions of cell phones. BIDEN CAMP REPORTEDLY INSISTING ECONOMIC ADVISORS NOT PUBLICLY DISCLOSE ROLES, IGNITING CONCERNS ABOUT TV HITS“People all across this country are enraged and rightly so.

Source: Fox News June 11, 2020 20:48 UTC