More than 50 groups signed a letter to the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee citing his plan to increase funding for policing, a stance one activist called a “slap in the face to black folks.”
The letter pointed to Biden’s recent promise to add $300 million for community policing programs, a plan that activists say would undermine their efforts to push for systemic changes, such as defunding police forces.
“It is a slap in the face to black folks,” said LaTosha Brown, the head of Black Voters Matter, an Atlanta-based civil rights group that signed on to the letter.
“As the presumptive Democratic nominee for President, you have a moral responsibility in this moment,” the groups wrote in the letter, which was first reported by the New York Times. “Making amends for the harm you’ve caused is an important first step, but it is no longer enough.” The wide coalition of groups that signed the letter signals the challenges Biden faces in balancing his need to energize his party’s liberal base, newly galvanized by the wave of protests following the killing of George Floyd, while maintaining his appeal to moderate voters and grappling with his pro-police past.Biden has so far distanced himself from some of the more dramatic ideas being pushed by activists, saying last week that he does not support defunding police departments.
“You cannot win the election without the enthusiastic support of Black voters, and how you act in this moment of crisis will play a big role in determining how Black voters — and all voters concerned with racial justice — respond to your candidacy,” the groups wrote.The former vice president gave a brief address days after Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis police custody, backing a ban on the kinds of chokeholds that led to Floyd’s death and promising to unveil a more robust policy in coming weeks.
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