Former U.S. vice-president and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his wife Jill are visiting Kenosha, Wis. on Thursday amid ongoing unrest over last Sunday's shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man shot in the back seven times by a police officer as members of the city's department were responding to a domestic disturbance call.

Biden began his visit to the battleground state of Wisconsin on Thursday by meeting with the family of Jacob Blake. Biden spent more than an hour in private with Blake's father, Jacob Blake Sr., his siblings, and one of his attorneys, B'Ivory LaMarr. Blake's mother Julia Jackson and another attorney, Ben Crump, joined by phone.

Biden followed his meeting with Blake's family and representatives with a community discussion at Grace Lutheran Church in Kenosha. The gathering included business and civic leaders and at least two representatives of law enforcement.

At the church, Biden said of Trump: "No president's ever going to say `they're very fine people on both sides.' No president has ever said anything like that ... It legitimizes the dark side of human nature."

Biden was referring to Trump's comments after a 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Va., turned deadly.

The Rev. Jonathan Barker, pastor of the church, opened the meeting with a prayer asking for "justice for Jacob Blake" and for God to "anoint" a national leader in November who will "seek justice, love mercy ... and love their neighbour."

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