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The president touched on his own experience of losing children, including the loss of a daughter and a son: “No parent should have to bury a child.”
“It’s like losing a piece of your soul,” he said. Some of you still have that feeling like you’ve been sucked into a black hole in your chest, wondering ‘My God will it ever change?’”
Biden praised the Fraternal Order of Police for being open to some elements of police reform measures that have been promoted in Washington in the wake of the death of George Floyd and subsequent protests in 2020.
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However, he continued to push back on aspects of demands made by Defund the Police activists. He promised more funding for “community policing” and mental health assistance.
“It’s a hard time to be a police officer in America, so I want to make sure you have the tools to be the partners and protectors communities need,” he said.
