WASHINGTON (CNN) —President Barack Obama is meeting Wednesday with activists from the Black Lives Matter movement as well as a range of law enforcement officials and community leaders amid a spate of violence between black communities and police across the country.
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Black Lives Matter activists DeRay Mckesson and Brittany Packnett will be in attendance, as will Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards.
Mckesson tweeted: "We are at the @WhiteHouse right now for a 3-hour convening w/ President Obama re: the recent events in #BatonRouge & across the country."
Mckesson was recently arrested while protesting the killing of Alton Sterling, a black man, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A few days later, five officers were killed in Dallas by a sniper.
Mckesson and Bel Edwards will have much to talk about after the Louisiana governor's state has been front and center in the policing debate, following the death of Sterling.
Other participants included mayors, law enforcement officials, activists and spiritual leaders according to the White House.
Five police chiefs were to attend, as well as four mayors, including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
State and local lawmakers were also in
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