Eric Holder In Oakland To Discuss Police Relations Following Violent Protests Last Year

February 5, 2015 6:27 AM

Attorney General Eric Holder (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

OAKLAND (CBS/AP) Attorney General Eric Holder will be in Oakland to talk about law enforcement and community relations.

Holder will meet with area police officers and community activists Thursday in a city that experienced a series of demonstrations against police abuse.

The U.S. Department of Justice declined to release the name of the attendees.

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Oakland is the sixth and last city Holder will visit since President Obama asked him to organize roundtable discussions about police and community relations. The meetings were set up in response to violent protests that sprang up across the country after police shot to death unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri and New York.

Holder has held meetings in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, Ohio and Memphis Tennessee.

Holder announced in September his plan to resign.

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