US President Joe Biden knelt at a meeting with the athletes of the Seattle Storm basketball club. A video recording with a gesture from the head of state spread across social networks.The basketball players gave Biden a uniform T-shirt with his last name and number 46 – he is the 46th President of the United States. After that, the politician was photographed with the athletes. In the picture, he posed on one knee.
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Judging by the video, no one expected this from the president – those present laughed. At the same time, the gesture is associated with the Black Lives Matter movement, directed against violence against black people.
Another wave of protests within the movement began in the United States after the death of African American George Floyd in 2020. During the arrest, police officer Derek Shovin used a hard grip, as a result of which the man suffocated.