Obama on Defusing Racial Tension

Last week a gunman killed five Dallas police at a Black Lives Matter protest.

Alton Sterling was killed by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on 5 July. A day later, Philando Castile was shot and killed during a traffic stop outside Minneapolis, Minnesota.

US President Barack Obama has urged police and black communities to come together, and defuse tension between them. He said it should not be “us versus them”, in a town hall meeting on race and policing.

Mr Obama and ABC News held the forum amid an increase in racial tensions in the US in recent weeks.