In Cleveland, Ohio, the inaugural Movement for Black Lives National Convening concluded with a white police officer pepper-spraying African-American attendees. When conference-goers witnessed police allegedly slamming a 14-year-old boy to the ground to arrest him, they blocked the squad car and tried to get the teenager out. A police officer then pepper-sprayed the crowd. The incident capped a weekend of programming about police brutality and racial justice. Among those who attended was former political prisoner and Black Panther Eddie Conway, who explained why the conference was a black-only space.

Eddie Conway: “Well, it’s a black-only space because we have to get ourselves together, we have to organize ourselves. And so, other people, if they have an interest in supporting us or being our allies or assisting our cause, they need to organize their communities and their space to give us support.”

We’ll have more from the Movement for Black Lives Convening later in the broadcast.