At vigil, Biden tries to comfort relatives of slain officers
BATON ROUGE, La. — The gunman’s bullets that killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge also targeted the country and “touched the soul of the entire nation,” Vice-President Joe Biden said Thursday at a memorial service for the fallen officers.
“We need to heal,” said Biden, who was joined at a Baton Rouge church by Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, the officers’ widows and hundreds of others.
Biden spoke directly to the three officers’ relatives from the stage. He promised them that a day will come when the memory of their loved ones will “bring a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye.”
“They were defined by their courage,” he said. “It matters who they were, and it matters who we are as a country.”