Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden says “there is systemic injustice” in the United States which is a significant issue in areas such as education, the workplace and law enforcement.

Considering the issue of racial inequality in the first Presidential debate, Mr Biden was asked to respond to the decision of the grand jury not to charge any of the police officers involved in the Breonna Taylor case with homicide.

“There are some bad apples and they have to be sorted out, and held accountable,” Mr Biden said but conceded the “vast majority of police officers are good, honest, decent and honourable men and women”.

“As President of the United States, I will call together an entire group of people at the White House, everyone from the civil rights groups to the police officers, the police chiefs, and we're going to work this out," he said.

Also speaking on the topic of race, President trump said he ordered federal agencies to end racial sensitivity training “because it was racist”.

“I ended it because a lot of people were complaining that they were asked to do things that were absolutely insane, that it was a radical revolution that was taking place in our military, in our schools, all over the place”.

“We were paying people hundreds of thousands of dollars to teach very bad ideas and frankly very sick ideas, and really they were teaching people to hate our country."

However, Joe Biden countered the President’s claims saying “the fact is that there is racial insensitivity. People have to be made aware of what other people feel like, what insults them, what is demeaning to them.”

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