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Hundreds Join Indiana Protests over Police Actions

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Hundreds of people joined a pair of marches in Indiana to protest decisions not to charge officers who killed black suspects in New York City and Ferguson, Missouri.

A group of about 150 people clogged several downtown Indianapolis intersections Thursday night as they marched from Monument Circle to the Indiana Statehouse. Some 300 people took part in another march on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington.

Participants in both marches shouted slogans such as “Hands up, don't shoot,'' “Black lives matter,'' and “I can't breathe.'' Those chants referenced the shooting death of a black teenager in Ferguson and the chokehold death of a black man in New York.

Both protests were peaceful, although Indianapolis police arrested two people for obstructing traffic.

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