Jacob Blake Tells Joe Biden in Call 'Nothing Will Defeat Me' After Shooting
Former Vice President Joe Biden said that Jacob Blake expressed optimism that "nothing was going to defeat him" during a meeting over the phone on Thursday.
Biden had the conversation while he and his wife Dr. Jill Biden met privately with Blake's family in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he also held a community meeting. Blake, a Black man, was left paralyzed from the waist down after being shot in the back seven times by a Kenosha police officer on August 23.
"He's out of ICU. We spoke for about 15 minutes," Biden said of his conversation with Blake, according to Bloomberg News reporter Jennifer Epstein. "[Blake] talked about how nothing was going to defeat him. How, whether he walked again or not, he was not going to give up."
Biden added that he and Blake also discussed the Bible's 23rd Psalm. He also said that during his meeting with Blake's family, he saw an "overwhelming sense of resilience and optimism they have about the kind of response they're getting."
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