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The Democrats cynically tried to take advantage of [[George Floyd]]'s death, which occurred only days after Biden's racist comments, to repair his relations with Blacks by attacking the alleged [[systemic racism]] of police departments in Democrat-controlled cities.  Police groups and unions which Biden courted since the 1990s on behalf of the [[Democratic party]] and [[Clinton administration]] with the [[Biden Crime Bill]], mass incarceration, and effort to put 100,000 new cops on the street to deal with "Superpredators", responded by withdrawing their support.<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/04/police-groups-joe-biden-300222</ref>  ''Jacobin'' magazine summarized Biden's record: {{Quotebox-float|"It’s not as if Biden didn’t know what he was doing.... He just didn’t care. Biden had made a calculated decision that the elections he would win were worth the damage he inflicted....even if Biden has subsequently learned the error of his ways, the rank cynicism and callousness involved in his two-decade-long championing of carceral policies should be more than enough to give anyone pause about his qualities as a leader, let alone a progressive one."<ref>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/biden-crime-mass-incarceration-police-prisons</ref>}}

The Democrats cynically tried to take advantage of [[George Floyd]]'s death, which occurred only days after Biden's racist comments, to repair his relations with Blacks by attacking the alleged [[systemic racism]] of police departments in Democrat-controlled cities.  Police groups and unions which Biden courted since the 1990s on behalf of the [[Democratic party]] and [[Clinton administration]] with the [[Biden Crime Bill]], mass incarceration, and effort to put 100,000 new cops on the street to deal with "Superpredators", responded by withdrawing their support.<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/04/police-groups-joe-biden-300222</ref>  ''Jacobin'' magazine summarized Biden's record: {{Quotebox-float|"It’s not as if Biden didn’t know what he was doing.... He just didn’t care. Biden had made a calculated decision that the elections he would win were worth the damage he inflicted....even if Biden has subsequently learned the error of his ways, the rank cynicism and callousness involved in his two-decade-long championing of carceral policies should be more than enough to give anyone pause about his qualities as a leader, let alone a progressive one."<ref>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/biden-crime-mass-incarceration-police-prisons</ref>}}

Lee Stranahan observed the organized George Floyd riots were an attempt to win the alienated white [[Bernie Sanders]] supporters back to the Democrat plantation.

Lee Stranahan observed the organized George Floyd riots were an attempt to win the alienated white [[Bernie Sanders]] supporters back to the Democrat plantation.

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