Protestors lined the street near a United Auto Workers hall in Warren chanting, “Biden, Biden, you can’t hide. Stop funding genocide!”
Joe Biden traveled to Detroit, Michigan on Thursday to make his first 2024 campaign stop in the Great Lakes State.
Biden will deliver remarks at an event hosted by the United Auto Workers Union just one week after he received an endorsement from the UAW.
Pro-Hamas protestors demanded an Israel-Hamas ceasefire ahead of Joe Biden’s arrival.
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Protestors gather near a UAW hall in Warren chanting, “Biden, Biden, you can’t hide. Stop funding genocide!” @POTUS arrived in Macomb County Thursday afternoon to make his first campaign stop in Michigan of 2024. : @bykaleahall | https://t.co/25Q806SRGk pic.twitter.com/wClejOH3Rt
— The Detroit News (@detroitnews) February 1, 2024
Police presence increased and officers arrived in riot gear ahead of Biden’s arrival.
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Happening now: Police presence has increased and officers arrive in riot gear as more protesters assembled in Warren near the UAW union hall in anticipation of Biden’s visit Thursday afternoon, demanding an #IsraelHamasWar ceasefire.
: @bykaleahall | https://t.co/zlb3g9or55 pic.twitter.com/FPC8kI3QB2
— The Detroit News (@detroitnews) February 1, 2024
Biden spent the first part of his visit in Metro Detroit shuffling around a black-owned sports bar.
The diners seemed completely uninterested in Joe Biden.
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President Joe #Biden chats with diners at They Say Restaurant in Harper Woods during his campaign stop in Michigan Thursday.
: @CraigDMauger | https://t.co/25Q806SRGk pic.twitter.com/leENEe7Oav
— The Detroit News (@detroitnews) February 1, 2024