Press will not be allowed to document President Joe Biden’s Tuesday meeting with the family of George Floyd, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday.
Tuesday’s meeting will occur on the one-year anniversary of Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police. One officer was found guilty on three counts related to Floyd’s death.
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“This is going to be a private meeting. And we certainly will also put out a statement from the president marking the anniversary a day that certainly impacted him personally and impacted millions of Americans, but he wanted this meeting to be private in order to have a real conversation and preserve that with the family,” Psaki told reporters at Monday’s White House press briefing.
She noted that the president “has a genuine relationship with them, and the courage and grace of this family, and especially his daughter Gianna, has really stuck with the president.”
Gianna Floyd and roughly a dozen members of the Floyd family will attend the meeting with Biden, the press secretary confirmed.
Biden had set Tuesday as a soft deadline for Congress to advance police reform legislation, and Psaki added later in the briefing that the bipartisan group of lawmakers, including California Democratic Rep. Karen Bass, New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, and South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott, “are making progress, and they’re encouraged by the tone and tenor of those conversations.”
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You can watch Monday’s briefing in its entirety below.
