Smart Talk 10th anniversary: police shootings
Looking back on memorable Smart Talks.
Police tape marks off the area where a shooting took place in downtown Dallas, Friday, July 8, 2016. Snipers opened fire on police officers in the heart of Dallas during protests over two recent fatal police shootings of black men. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
On July 11, 2016, America was reeling from the shootings of two black men by police — one in Louisana and another in Minnesota — by police officers. Those shootings were part of a string of violent confrontations between police ands African-American men.
A few days before the shootings, a sniper shot and killed five police officers and wounded seven others in Dallas.
Smart Talk brought together five panelists to discuss the police shootings in depth.
