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'Same Old Story': Seattle Reacts To Ferguson Decision

Chanting "Black lives matter," hundreds of people marched through Seattle last night to protest a Missouri grand jury's decision to not indict a white police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson earlier this year.

Among them was 23-year-old Marissa Johnson. Johnson is black and she said the news from Ferguson has some personal meaning for her and her family.

"You know every time one of these things happens, I have to call one of my two younger brothers who are teenagers,” she said, choking up. “And I have to have a serious conversation with them about how they are in the world and I fear for their lives a lot."

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