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Im chris hayes. This afternoon, president obama met with civil rights leaders, Law Enforcement and other officials to discuss how to repair the relationship between police and communities of color. Following the announcement by st. Louis county prosecutor Bob Mcculloch one week ago that a grand jury would not indict Police Officer Darren Ferguson in the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown on august 9th setting off a wave of protests across the country. Ferguson lay bare, a problem that is not unique to st. Louis or that area and is not unique to our times. And that is a simmering distrust that exists between too Many Police Departments and too many communities of color. The sense that in a country where one of our basic principles, perhaps the most important principle is equality under the law that too many individuals, particularly young people of color, do not feel as if they are being treated fairly. The president is proposing to spend 260 million on resources and training for

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