The two juxtaposed episodes less than three weeks apart encapsulated the nation's deep divides that Biden must confront but also a democracy's potential for change. What Biden plans to doBiden's effort will require action from the Justice Department to tackle civil rights abuses and to guarantee fairness in the judicial system for all. Biden in the middleLike many other issues, the debate over what Biden has said is "systemic" racism in the criminal justice system puts the President between two absolutist positions. Conservative media has already accused Biden of wrongly equating every Trump voter with White nationalists and racists. But he has also always had a strong relationship with the police and their unions during his long political career.

Source: CNN January 26, 2021 05:15 UTC