Then-candidate Joe Biden made a secret hospital visit to meet a wounded police officer
Houston police officer Taylor Roccaforte was shocked when then-presidential candidate Joe Biden came to see him in the hospital after he was shot in the line of duty.
Roccaforte was even more surprised that the future president wanted to keep the 2019 visit a secret.
Roccaforte, 30, told CNN that Biden came to see him just days after he was shot three times during a struggle with a suspect in two carjackings and the robbery of a priest.
“It was a very small meeting for just me and my very close, immediate family,” Roccaforte said. “He visited with me for for a little bit and it was just nice. It was very, very private, but very intimate.”
"If you think it would be helpful to his spirit and recovery, I would like to visit him at the hospital. No media," Biden told Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo.
Newly released photographs show now-President Joe Biden quietly visited an injured Houston police officer in the hospital a little more than a year ago.
The untold story of Joe Biden s secret visit with a wounded HPD officer
The untold story of Biden s secret visit with a wounded HPD officer By ABC13 Staff Joe Biden visited the wounded HPD officer secretly in 2019.
Photo courtesy of ABC13 In the midst of the pomp and circumstance of President Joe Biden s inauguration, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo revealed the man who would become the 46th president reached out to him about visiting a wounded officer in the hospital back in 2019. In a series of tweets, Acevedo said the request was made in the days after Texas Southern University hosted the Democratic Presidential Debate, which involved then-Vice President Biden and then-Senator Kamala Harris. On the same night the event was held, an officer was shot just a mile away from campus.