Washington (CNN) The mother of a woman killed in the 2017 Charlottesville protests, which were referenced in a video announcing Joe Biden's presidential campaign, said Friday it's important the incident remain a part of the political dialogue.

"I think it has to be part of the political dialogue. Because this is a very serious problem in our country. Not only do we deal with hate crime, we have to deal with the reporting of hate crime," Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day." Bro believes those injured in hate crimes are not adequately represented in federal statistics.

In a video launching his 2020 campaign Thursday, Biden highlighted President Donald Trump's reaction to the white supremacists' August 2017 march in Charlottesville and alluded to the killing of Heyer, a counter-protester.

"The President of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime," Biden said in the video.

"We saw Klansmen and white supremacists and neo-Nazis come out in the open, their crazed faces illuminated by torches, veins bulging, and bearing the fangs of racism, chanting the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the 30s," Biden said.

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