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'Not here in Seattle': An African American therapist reacts to Lyles' shooting

caption: Jenny Henderson, Seattle mental health counselor
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Jenny Henderson, Seattle mental health counselor
KUOW: Kara McDermott

The African American community in Seattle is in shock after city police shot and killed 30-year-old Charleena Lyles. Jenny Henderson is a therapist in Seattle whose clientele is mostly black. She tells Kim Malcolm that Lyles' mental illness was not taken into account.

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