Former President Barack Obama, along with other leaders, will “discuss the tragic events of recent weeks, the history of police violence in America, and specific action steps needed to transform a system that has led to the loss of too many lives” in a livestream on Wednesday, according to the Obama Foundation.
The livestream will happen at 5 p.m.
These will be his first on-camera comments about recent events.
On Monday he wrote in a Medium post, “Let’s not excuse violence, or rationalize it, or participate in it. If we want our criminal justice system, and American society at large, to operate on a higher ethical code, then we have to model that code ourselves.”
He also said in a statement on Friday that the death of a black man in police custody, “shouldn’t be ‘normal’ in 2020 America.”