Biden Interrupted by Protesters Calling for Gaza Ceasefire at Charleston Church

Protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza briefly derailed a speech by President Joe Biden in South Carolina on Monday.

Biden was speaking at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston—the site where a white supremacist gunman killed nine Black churchgoers in 2015—when around six protesters broke in with chants of “ceasefire now.” One protester also shouted, “If you really care about the lives lost here, you should honor the lives lost and call for a cease-fire in Gaza,” according to footage of the event.

Others in the crowd began shouting them down, taking up a call of “four more years” as the handful of protesters were escorted out of the hall. The president quieted his supporters, saying that he understood the protesters’ “passion.”

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