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Biden urged to pick black VP, not Klobuchar as Minneapolis killing stokes racial tensions

FILE PHOTO: Candidates former Vice President Joe Biden and US Senator Kamala Harris on the second night of the second 2020 Democratic US presidential debate in Detroit, Michigan, July 31, 2019. [Reuters]

Former Vice President Joe Biden is facing fresh calls to choose a black woman as his running mate amid rising racial tensions after this week’s videotaped death of an unarmed black man as a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck. 

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