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He also called on getting law enforcement \"the training they need,\" as well as increasing resources to reduce violent crime and gun crime, community intervention programs and investments in housing, education and job training.

\"All this can help prevent violence in the first place,\" said Biden, who added that officers or departments must be held accountable when they \"violate the public's trust.\"

Biden said that when he asked RowVaughn Wells how she found the courage to speak out, he said she said, \"Her son 'was a beautiful soul and something good will come from this.'\"

\"Let's commit ourselves to make the words of Tyler's [sic] mom true -- something good must come from this. Something good,\" he said.

\"All of us in this chamber, we need to rise to this moment,\" Biden said. \"We can't turn away. Let's do what we know in our hearts, what we need to do. Let's come together to finish the job on police reform. Do something.\"

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PHOTO: RowVaughn Wells, mother of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police officers, stands as she is recognized by President Joe Biden as he delivers the State of the Union address at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 7, 2023.
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RowVaughn Wells rose to her feet as the president called on Congress to act.

During Nichols' funeral last week, she tearfully called for the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act to be passed.

\"We need to take some action because there should be no other child that should suffer the way my son [did] and all the other parents here who've lost their children,\" RowVaughn Wells said. \"We need to get that bill passed because if we don't, that blood -- the next child that dies -- that blood is going to be on their hands.\"

The bill, which would've sought to address racial profiling and the use of deadly force, was passed by the Democrat-controlled House in 2021 but stalled in the Senate over the issue of qualified immunity for officers.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Ben Crump, an attorney for Nichols' family, all pushed for lawmakers to revive talks on the legislation, which was crafted in the wake of George Floyd's killing in 2020 at the hands of Minneapolis police.

\"We demand that Congress pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act,\" Harris said at Nichols' funeral. \"Joe Biden will sign it. We should not delay, and we shall not be denied. It is nonnegotiable.\"

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PHOTO: Rodney Wells and RowVaughn Wells, parents of Tyre Nichols, are applauded during U.S. President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, Feb. 7, 2023 in Washington.
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Calls for police reform were on display during Biden's second State of the Union address.

The families of George Floyd, Eric Garner, Walter Scott and Tamir Rice -- who were all killed by police officers -- were invited by the Congressional Black Caucus to attend the address.

Some Democrats also wore black pins with the year 1870 bolded in white, referring to the first known instance of a police officer killing an unarmed, free Black person in the U.S., according to lawmakers.

ABC News' Alexandra Hutzler contributed to this report.

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