Following Ferguson: Residents Head to State Capitol as Street Protests Continue

By Carla Murphy Sep 11, 2014

Ferguson residents continue to voice frustration on more than one front, and new video of Michael Brown’s fatal shooting surfaces. While street protests continued with an attempt to block Interstate-70 during rush hour yesterday, another 60-plus residents traveled to the state capitol in Jefferson City to tell their stories to state lawmakers. They hope, according to local station KSDK, to get laws to change–although the report does not specify which laws. Pharmacy technician Kayla Reed never expected to become an activist explains why she got on the bus. "If they see us and they hear us, and I’m speaking eloquently to them, and I’m not in their face saying, ‘Hands up, don’t shoot,’ if I’m not that because you couldn’t come to me when I needed you, so I’ll come to you," she tells KSDK.

Of the nearly 150 people attempting to block I-70 yesterday, the LA Times reports that police arrested at least 10. One organizer, Eric Vickers, according to the Post-Dispatch, did not rule out future acts of civil disobedience. Protesters are calling for Governor Jay Nixon to replace St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch with a special prosecutor. McCulloch’s father, a police officer, was killed nearly 50 years ago by an African-American suspect. 

Meanwhile, video and new eyewitnesses corroborating previous testimony has surfaced. Two construction workers who asked to remain unidentified were on scene at the time of Wilson’s fatal shooting of Brown. Read more on Fox 2 Now St. Louis and USA Today.