President Obama met Wednesday at the White House with law enforcement officials and civil rights leaders after a week of nationwide protests over police brutality sparked by the fatal police shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. At the White House meeting, Obama emphasized the need for building trust between police and communities.

President Barack Obama: “We’re not at a point yet where communities of color feel confident that their police departments are serving them with dignity and respect and equality. … We’re going to have to do more work together in thinking about how we can build confidence that after police officers have used force, and particularly deadly force, that there is confidence in how the investigation takes place and that justice is done.”

Among those at the four-and-a-half-hour meeting were Reverend Al Sharpton, NAACP President Cornell William Brooks, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson.