President Obama's top advisers held meetings Monday with Muslim and Sikh leaders to discuss the fallout their communities are facing after the deadly San Bernardino shootings, NBC News reported.
A dozen influential leaders represented the Muslim community. Sikhs are not Muslims, but Sikh men wear turbans and have also been the target of bias attacks.
Senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Munoz, and Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes took part in the White House sit-downs — a dozen days after a radicalized Muslim couple fatally shot 14 people and wounded 21 more in California.
Chicago-born Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik, a Pakistani national raised in Saudi Arabia, were killed in a shootout with police after the Dec. 2 massacre.
