Biden meets Jacob Blake’s family during trip to Wisconsin

Joe Biden leaving a meeting with relatives of Jacob Blake (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Thu, 03 Sep, 2020 - 21:01

Bill Barrow and Will Weissert, Associated Press

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has met the family of Jacob Blake, who was shot by a white police officer, during a visit to the battleground state of Wisconsin.

Mr Biden spent more than an hour in private with Mr Blake’s father, Jacob Blake Sr, his siblings, and one of his lawyers, B’Ivory LaMarr. Mr Blake’s mother Julia Jackson and another lawyer, Ben Crump, joined by phone.