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Ferguson Pastor: 'This Is Not A Race Issue ... This Is A Human Issue'

Rev. Willis Johnson's church is just one mile from the site where Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo. Johnson has spent the past week with the protesters gathered at the scene, and he tells Melissa Block what he's hearing from them.

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