Joe Biden visits a site of the protest over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden reportedly visited the site of one of the protests in his home state of Delaware on Sunday. 

Biden took the time to urge protesters to desist against police brutality not to turn to violence.

Joe Biden was photographed wearing a face mask. This is his second appearance outside his Delaware home since the coronavirus crisis hit in March. 

He reportedly visited an area in Wilmington where demonstrators vented outrage at the death of a black man shown on video gasping for breath as a white Minneapolis policeman knelt on his neck.

A campaign post on Instagram showed Biden speaking with African American residents and inspecting buildings boarded up to prevent damage hours after he issued a statement that 'we are a nation in pain, but we must not allow this pain to destroy us.'

'The only way to bear this pain is to turn all that anguish to purpose. And as President, I will help lead this conversation -- and more importantly, I will listen, just as I did today visiting the site of last night's protests in Wilmington,' Biden wrote on Instagram.   

Biden demanded demonstrators stop 'burning down communities' in the midst of their protesting. 

'Protesting such brutality is right and necessary,' Biden said in a statement emailed shortly after midnight. 'But burning down communities and needless destruction is not. 

'The act of protesting should never be allowed to overshadow the reason we protest. It should not drive people away from the just cause that protest is meant to advance,' Biden urged.