Biden calls on Americans to stop violence

“As Americans, we are wounded by all of these deaths. It’s on all of us to stand up, to speak out 

about disparities in our criminal justice system just as it’s on all of us to stand up for the police who 

protect us in our communities every day,” Biden said in a recorded weekly radio and web address usually done by the US President.

Biden commemorated the lives of the five police officers killed and the seven people wounded in the Dallas shootings.The police officers were providing safety to those who were peacefully marching against racial injustices in the criminal justice system and the shocking images of the lives lost in St Paul and Baton Rouge.

“When an assassin’s bullet targeted the police force in Dallas, it touched the soul of the nation. Those killed and wounded were protecting the safety of those who were peacefully protesting against racial injustices in the criminal justice system,” Biden said.

“Those who were marching against the kind of shocking images we saw in St Paul and Baton Rouge and have seen too often elsewhere of too many black lives lost,” he said.

Echoing the remarks of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and police Chief David Brown, Biden called on the American people to act with unity to stop the violence.

He emphasised that it was everyone’s responsibility to speak out against disparities within the criminal justice system, just as much as it is the responsibility of everyone to stand up for the police “who protect us every day.”

“So while we’re being tested, we can’t be pulled apart. We are America, with bonds that hold us together. We endure, we persevere, we overcome, we stand together,” Biden said.

The incident on Friday was one of the deadliest attacks on law enforcers in America since 9/11.

The main suspect was 25-year-old Micah Johnson, who was later killed in a blast triggered by a robot. Johnson was an army reservist and Afghan veteran, officials have said.