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Via STL Dispatch
In what organizers say is a “response to the recent events in Ferguson,” Attorney General Eric Holder and former President Bill Clinton will open a two-day forum on Wednesday on race relations and community policing with 40 mayors and 30 police chiefs from across the country.
St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay will be among the speakers, according to a news release on the event put out Saturday morning. The event is sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and will be held at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Ark.
It marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Community Oriented Policing Service, a Justice Department division established during Clinton’s presidency.
COPS employees have been working in Ferguson since shortly after the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown, 18, by Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson.
Clinton and Holder will address the opening of the two-day conference. Slay and mayors from around the country are expected to speak.[…]
Most of the session is closed to the press and public, according to the organizers.