Biden says race bias plain in handling of White mob Annie Linskey, Chelsea Janes and Amy B Wang, The Washington Post Jan. 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail President-elect Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Del., on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. "Totally unacceptable," he said.Washington Post photo by Demetrius Freeman President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday denounced what he described as an unequal justice system reflected in the lenient response to the mostly White rioters who assaulted the U.S. Capitol this week, suggesting a stark contrast with the treatment of racial justice demonstrators across the country last summer. "You can't tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesters yesterday they wouldn't have been treated very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol," Biden said in Wilmington, before beginning to hammer his fist against the lectern. "We all know that is true. And it is totally unacceptable. Totally unacceptable. The American people saw it in plain view."