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Via WISTV:
Leaders of area civil rights groups and Charleston city and county officials are stressing the importance of remaining peaceful as two high-profile trials begin in the Lowcountry.
Jury selection in the state trial for Michael Slager, a former North Charleston officer accused in the shooting death of motorist Walter Scott, started Monday morning at the Charleston County courthouse. The federal trial of Dylann Roof, accused in the shooting deaths of nine parishioners of Mother Emanuel AME Church on June 17, 2015, begins next Monday.
Monday, Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg, leaders of the National Action Network, NAACP, Charleston Police and area chaplains gathered at Marion Square.
The leaders want to send a message to outside groups who may think of traveling to the Holy City.
“We don’t want outsiders coming into our city to speak for the people of the City of Charleston,” said Elder James Johnson, with NAN. “We can speak for ourselves.”
Officials with the city and local groups are on the lookout for potentially violent groups. Johnson said there was talk on social media of the KKK and New Black Panthers coming to the area.