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Joe Biden: “Through the night and into the morning, the mob terrorized greenwood, torches and guns shooting at will, a mob tied a…”

On the recordJune 1, 2021
Through the night and into the morning, the mob terrorized greenwood, torches and guns shooting at will, a mob tied a black man by the waist to the back of their truck with his head banging along the pavement as they drove off. A murdered black family draped over the fence of their homes outside. And elderly couples knelt by their beds praying to God with their heart and soul, and they were shot in the back of their heads. Private planes -- private planes dropping explosives -- the first and only domestic aerial assault of its kind on an American city here in Tulsa. My fellow Americans this was not a riot, this was a massacre.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
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msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

President Biden describes the violent events of the Tulsa massacre, emphasizing its severity and labeling it as a massacre rather than a riot.

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