Democratic presidential candidate said Floyd's record of death has caused wider global consciousness

Former Vice President and Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden said at a Philadelphia press conference tonight (Friday) that he believes the killing of George Floyd by a police officer last month in Minneapolis has more global impact than the murder of civil rights activist Martin Luther King King in 1968 .

ICYMI: Here's the video of @JoeBiden saying Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination didn't have the worldwide impact that George Floyd's death did. pic.twitter.com/SMD6jWL67S

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Biden claims that the advent of smartphones allowed the reality of police brutality against blacks to spread rapidly, comparing it to the rise in TVs in homes in the 1960s that flooded Americans with police harassment to the civil rights movement.

"Even the assassination of Dr. King has not had a global impact like the death of George Floyd. It's just like TV changed the civil rights movement when broadcasting photos of police officers tearing old church clothes in the church. "Biden added that" what happened to Floyd changed the way we all look at reality. Watch some people take to the streets around the world calling for change. "

Later, the Democratic presidential candidate addressed the protesters calling for police reform, saying that most of the American public is in the same opinion. "The public understands the need for systemic change, dealing with systemic racism and harassing the system for anyone with no money."