Former Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday afternoon visited the site of Saturday night's protests in Wilmington, Delaware, wearing a mask to meet with people who demonstrated against police brutality.
On social media, Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, posted that the protests show the United States is a "nation in pain, but we must not allow this pain to destroy us. We are a nation enraged, but we cannot allow our rage to consume us. We are a nation exhausted, but we will not allow our exhaustion to defeat us. The only way to bear this pain is to turn all that anguish to purpose."
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