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Trump, Biden Spar over US Protest Violence

Ken Bredemeier

   Nine weeks from the national U.S. election, President Donald Trump and
   his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, sparred
   Monday over blame for street violence linked to racial injustice and
   police treatment of minorities that erupted in recent days.

   Trump tweeted Monday that he plans Tuesday to visit Kenosha,
   Wisconsin,where protests turned violent last week in the aftermath of a
   police shooting of a Black man as they attempted to arrest him. A white
   teenage vigilante claiming to protect businesses in Kenosha was accused
   of fatally shooting two people and wounding a third during a street
   demonstration.

   Referring to Biden, Trump said the Wisconsin violence, and unrest in
   Portland, Oregon, in the U.S. northwest, forced "Slow Joe" out of his
   basement at his home in Delaware, where he has campaigned for the
   November3 election to avoid crowds during the unabated coronavirus
   pandemic.

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