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		</div><p>America is “not even close” to where it needs to be in terms of resolving issues between police and the communities they serve, President Barack Obama said after concluding a more than three-hour meeting with community activists, politicians and law enforcement officials.</p>
<p>Obama expressed optimism, however, and said the participants — who included members of the Black Lives Matter movement — agreed such conversations need to continue despite emotions running raw.</p>
<p>Obama has devoted his attention this week to the gun violence directed at police officers as well as shootings by police. The focus comes a few days after a black Army veteran killed five police officers in revenge for police shooting black men in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the Minneapolis suburbs.</p>
<p>Obama said it would be key to repeat the “kind of respectful conversations we’ve had here” across the country.</p>
<p>“The conversation that took place around this table is very different than the one that you see on a day-to-day or hourly basis in the media,” he said.</p>
<p>But Obama also said the “bad news” was that making progress is hard.</p>
<p>“We’re not even close to being there yet, where we want to be,” he said.</p>
<p>The nearly three dozen people invited to the White House included some police organisations that have little regard for Black Lives Matter, a group they blame for inciting violence against police officers.</p>
<p>Obama took to Facebook to encourage more participation. “Going forward, I want to hear ideas from even more Americans about how we can address these challenges together as one nation. That means you,” Obama said.</p>
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