Biden calls for 'real leadership that will bring everyone to the table' after Trump alludes to violence after police killing

Joe Biden on Friday called for justice and "real leadership", accusing President Donald Trump of encouraging violence by threatening deadly military force to stop rioters in Minneapolis protesting the police killing of an unarmed black man.

Biden, the likely Democratic presidential nominee to face Trump in November's election, said the anger, frustration and exhaustion felt by black Americans was "undeniable", and that the country needed to face its "deep open wound" of racism.

"This is no time for incendiary tweets. It's no time to encourage violence This is a national crisis and we need real leadership right now. Leadership that will bring everyone to the table so that we can take measures to root out systemic racism," the former vice president said in live remarks on YouTube.

He called for police reform, and said he had promised Floyd's family that he would do everything in his power to see "that justice is had".

Trump on Friday repeated on Twitter that "looting leads to shooting" and defended his initial post, saying it was "spoken as a fact, not as a statement."

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