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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will be in Philadelphia on Thursday to host a roundtable on building trust between the police and the people they serve.

Holder's visit, similar to meetings he held recently in Atlanta, Memphis, Cleveland, and Chicago, is meant to underscore the Obama administration's aim of "increasing the integrity within our justice system," according to a Department of Justice spokesman.

Since the killing of unarmed African American men by white police officers in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City - and the social unrest that followed - the administration has been keen on helping local communities and their police departments work better together, the spokesman said.

Holder will meet with Mayor Nutter and Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey, as well as community leaders and students, at the office of U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger in Center City.

In a statement last month, Holder summed up the administration's view of events, suggesting the impetus for his visit here:

"Millions of people throughout the nation have come together - bound by grief and anguish - in response to the tragic deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson [in August] and Eric Garner [in July] in New York City.

"The tragic losses of these and far too many other Americans . . . have raised urgent, national questions. And they have sparked an important conversation about the sense of trust that must exist between law enforcement and the communities they serve and protect."

Many Americans were angered that no criminal charges were filed against the New York City police officer captured on cellphone video holding Garner, who had attracted the attention of police by selling unregulated cigarettes outside a bodega in Staten Island, in what appeared to be a choke hold. The video shows Garner complaining, "I can't breathe," while the choke hold was applied. Garner died at the scene.

Similarly, people were upset that a grand jury declined to charge a white police officer in Brown's death. Throughout America, people held demonstrations to express their displeasure with the findings.

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Concerns Grow Of Lone Wolf Terror Attack In U.S.
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Attorney General Eric Holder avoided naming a specific terrorist organization as responsible for last week's attacks in Paris during a flurry of appearances on Sunday political shows.

"Well, at this point, we don't have any credible information that would allow us to make a determination as to which organization was responsible," Holder told ABC's "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos.

Stephanopoulos asked Holder whether the Islamic State or Yemen's al Qaeda affiliate were connected to the militant brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, who are suspected of killing 12 people Wednesday in a targeted attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in retaliation for its controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The brothers were killed by police later in the week.

"I think it's clear that both organizations pose a threat to the United States, as well as to its allies," Holder said.

Also in France last week, Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who killed a traffic policewoman on Thursday and then shot four hostages at a Jewish supermarket on Friday, said in an interview with a French news channel before he was killed by police that he had acted on behalf of the Islamic State. French authorities believe his girlfriend, Hayat Boumeddiene, left France, perhaps bound for Syria, on Jan. 2.

French counterterrorist officials are investigating links between Coulibaly and the Kouachi brothers, how they obtained funding and weapons, and whether they were members of an extremist sleeper cell.

Holder said the United States would have to determine if any terrorist organization was directly responsible for the attacks before initiating any kind of retaliation.

"Bringing people to justice who are responsible for these acts is certainly something that we would work together with our French counterparts, and to the extent that there is something more than that, we will certainly consider whatever it is that they would propose," he said.

Holder attended a security summit hosted by the French Interior Ministry on Sunday, along with intelligence and law enforcement officials from across Europe and North America.

"I mean, one of the things that we have certainly gleaned from these interactions, is there's a greater need for us to -- to share information, to knock down these information-sharing barriers so that we can always stay on top of these threats," he said. "One nation cannot by itself hope to forestall the possibility of terrorism, even within its own borders."

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Aurelien Meunier via Getty Images Bernard Cazeneuve (R), French Minister of Interior welcomes Eric Holder (L) the United States of America Minister of Interior during the meeting with ministers of interior and homeland security held in the ministry of interior Place Beauvau on January 11, 2015 in Paris, France. The meeting is organised prior a lunch at Palais de l' Elysee and they will all join the mass unity rally held in Paris following the recent terrorist attacks

Attorney General Eric Holder avoided naming a specific terrorist organization as responsible for last week's attacks in Paris during a flurry of appearances on Sunday political shows.

"Well, at this point, we don't have any credible information that would allow us to make a determination as to which organization was responsible," Holder told ABC's "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos.

Stephanopoulos asked Holder whether the Islamic State or Yemen's al Qaeda affiliate were connected to the militant brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, who are suspected of killing 12 people Wednesday in a targeted attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in retaliation for its controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The brothers were killed by police later in the week.

"I think it's clear that both organizations pose a threat to the United States, as well as to its allies," Holder said.

Also in France last week, Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who killed a traffic policewoman on Thursday and then shot four hostages at a Jewish supermarket on Friday, said in an interview with a French news channel before he was killed by police that he had acted on behalf of the Islamic State. French authorities believe his girlfriend, Hayat Boumeddiene, left France, perhaps bound for Syria, on Jan. 2.

French counterterrorist officials are investigating links between Coulibaly and the Kouachi brothers, how they obtained funding and weapons, and whether they were members of an extremist sleeper cell.

Holder said the United States would have to determine if any terrorist organization was directly responsible for the attacks before initiating any kind of retaliation.

"Bringing people to justice who are responsible for these acts is certainly something that we would work together with our French counterparts, and to the extent that there is something more than that, we will certainly consider whatever it is that they would propose," he said.

Holder attended a security summit hosted by the French Interior Ministry on Sunday, along with intelligence and law enforcement officials from across Europe and North America.

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