Biden: Trump 'despicable' for invoking George Floyd

US President Donald Trump has been criticize by his Democratic challenger Joe Biden for invoking George Floyd's name as he touted US jobs figures.

Mr Trump said Mr Floyd, an unarmed dark man who passed on in police care in Minneapolis, is "looking down" and "saying this is a great day".

Mr Biden, who has now officially secured the Democratic presidential nomination, said the comment was "despicable". 



Mr Trump talked while celebrating an unexpected US employments bounce back. 

In his discourse, the president called for "equal justice under the law".

Mr Floyd, who was unarmed and in handcuffs, passed on 25 May after a police officer stooped on his neck for almost nine minutes. The official involved was accused of murder and three associates stand accused for helping and abetting. 

The death triggered protests against racial discrimination over the US and world. On Friday, Minneapolis prohibited the police neck restriction seen in the video of Mr Floyd's demise, and California promised to stick to this same pattern.



Talking in the White House Rose Garden on Friday, Mr Trump stated: "Equal justice under the law must mean that every American receives equal treatment in every encounter with law enforcement regardless of race, colour, gender or creed.

"They have to receive fair treatment from law enforcement. They have to receive it.

We all saw what happened last week. We can't let that happen.

"Hopefully George is looking down and saying this is a great thing that's happening for our country. A great day for him. It's a great day for everybody."



Mr Trump, a Republican, added: "This is a great, great day in terms of equality."

The president's critics said he was roughly recommending Mr Floyd would be posthumously praising positive jobs figures. 

Mr Trump's protectors said the setting of his remarks clarify he was alluding to his call for equal treatment of all Americans by police.



What did Biden say?

The Democratic presidential competitor hit back during a campaign discourse in Dover, Delaware. 

He said: "George Floyd's last words, 'I can't breathe, I can't breathe' echoed all across this nation and quite frankly around the world.

"For the president to try to put any other words in the mouth of George Floyd I frankly think is despicable."

Mr Biden, a former US vice-president, has been sharpening his attacks on Mr Trump as the 3 November White House election looms.



While campaigning in his home state of Delaware on Thursday night, he said Mr Trump brings out the "worst" of some Americans and "there are probably anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of the people out there, they're just not very good people".


On Friday, Mr Biden secured the 1,991 delegates he needed to be chosen as nominee at the Democratic party's national convention, US media reported. This happened after presidential primaries in seven states and the District of Columbia

"I am going to spend every day between now and 3 November fighting to earn the votes of Americans all across this great country," Mr Biden said.



What do the job figures show?

The most recent US monthly jobs report report on Friday indicated employers added 2.5 million employments, resisting financial experts' expectations of further decrease. 

For dark laborers, in any case, the joblessness rate crawled upwards from 16.7% to 16.8%. 

The losses from the coronavirus pandemic have hit minority and low-wage laborers hardest. 


The Hispanic joblessness rate declined in April from 18.5% to 17.2%. What's more, it fell among white workers to 12.4% from 13.8%.



Who's banning police neck restraints?

The Minneapolis City Council and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights on Friday agreed to ban police neck restrictions and strangle holds. 


The new policy, which will be enforceable in court, requires any officer regardless of rank to verbally and physically intervene if they witness an associate using such unauthorised power.

California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom said on Friday he would move to end state police preparing in the use of the "carotid restriction". 




San Diego Police Department restricted the technique this week because of the across the nation commotion over events in Minneapolis. 


Authorities in New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles have all recently found a way to ban or limit the use of chokeholds by individuals from their police departments.