The protestors started with three demands: name the officers involved in the shooting, release the unedited body cam footage of the incident, and start an independent review board to investigate the incident and any others with transparency and clarity. To this date only the first demand has been met.

Each night protestors met a line of officers around Omaha Police Headquarters and launched a verbal assault on officers standing on the patio. Protestors did speak with some officers, making moral arguments to the police for the release of the footage. One night, Kenneth Jones’s family joined activists in pleading for the footage to be released.

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