Signs and shirts for Isaiah Hammett, who was killed by a police SWAT raid in 2017

https://www.stltoday.com/news/multimedia/pictures/photos-isaiah-hammett-remembered-by-family-and-friends/collection_c9d22864-df4a-513a-9f53-deaa1688339d.html

Getting under way in Jefferson City, MO

Justice for Isaiah

It's not just one age, just one race, or just one religion out here

Missouri House Rep @RepSheenBean addresses the crowd

"We're not just in Kansas City. We're not just in Ferguson and St. Louis. We're taking this to the top...this is the people's house, and we're going in today" @RepSheenBean

"We're going to have a justice road trip!" @DarrylGregoryG2 speaks to the need to spread education, awareness and political pressure around the state

Aldridge gives respect to a group of local women who protest injustice every Monday and Wednesday at the courthouse in Jeff City

Stay tuned

Protesters are entering the Missouri Capitol

You want to watch @Ohun_Ashe livestream right now

Civic Engagement

I count 6 people on the Missouri Senate floor with no masks. There's roughly 50 protesters here with 100% mask rate among them

Protesters are more attentive during this session than this Senator is.

The topic is police violence and institutional racism

Is it normal for state senators to totally ignore extremely important conversations on the Senate floor? Cuz this seems inexcusable and pathetic to me

Can you do this at your job? MO Senators make $36,000 plus per diems to...ignore the issues

"They say we don't have power, but we just shut down the Capitol" @Ohun_Ashe

"Change is going to come now by any means necessary" @Ohun_Ashe

More videos to post when I get home. Isaiah Hammett's mother and Cary Ball's mother spoke after protesters disrupted the MO Senate debate, and they spoke powerfully

Toni Talyor, mother of Cary Bell, speaks in the Missouri Capitol rotunda. Bell was killed when shot 25 times by St. Louis police

Mother of Isaiah Hammett, Gina Torres, speaks in the Missouri Capitol rotunda

Missouri State Senator @SenatorNasheed came out and spoke with protesters in the rotunda. I did not see any other State Senators do that. She also acknowledged, and thanked, the protesters from the Senate Floor

Please do correct me if there were more Senators who came out to see the protesters

Criminal justice reform, not rhetoric