Biden: 'Can't let guard down' against voting limits
SELMA, Ala. — Vice President Joe Biden apologized twice Sunday — first to an audience in a college gym, then to a crowd at the foot of the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge. Both were gathered to commemorate “Bloody Sunday,” when Alabama troopers and Selma, Ala., law enforcement beat back civil rights marchers on March 7, 1965.
“I feel a lot of guilt, like many in my generation, that I could have been here, I should have been here 48 years ago,” he said at the Martin and Coretta King Unity Brunch on Sunday morning, saying he remembered watching the scenes of troopers and deputies shooting tear gas at the nonviolent marchers, trampling them with horses and beating them with clubs. “But I wanted my daughter (and) my sister to be with me here 48 years later.”
