"The response that we see happening in a number of communities where there have been police involved shootings that there is this sense of fear," she said.
Alton Sterling was killed in Louisiana Tuesday. A day later, Philando Castile in Minnesota. Their families say it was discriminate and prejudice.
"That body screams a number of things to others that makes people have visceral reactions to so that when they're thinking about someone who is violent, that's a black man," Moffitt said.
Is there a solution and can things change are among the questions on many minds.
"People have to hear each other and understand that even if we don't see it as race or racism, that it is something about a way that we are mistreating other human beings," Moffitt said.
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