Wichita State students and staff and about 50 other people met on the corner of Hillside and 21st Streets Tuesday in response to the decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. on Aug. 9.

The group did it intentionally on the same street as the Wichita Police Department Patrol North Bureau, said Mary Dean a Sunflower Community Action member.

Caddy-corner to WSU, the protesters came out with signs, microphones and a purpose.

People from all walks of life and backgrounds joined together in an effort to peacefully raise awareness about racial profiling in Wichita.

Senior Giovanni Poland said she didn’t think twice about coming out in support after hearing about the gathering on Facebook.

“We have to take care of business here in Wichita first,” Poland said.

Protesters wore stickers Tuesday that read, “Michael Brown can’t vote. But I can,” including Wichita State music professor Geoff Deibel.

“It’s easy for people to stick their heads in the sand with a problem like this,” Deibel said. “It’s easy to say, ‘move on,’ but try telling that to the families.”

People in attendance displayed signs honoring people they have lost in officer-involved shootings.

There have been officer-related shootings in or around Wichita in recent years. The most recent victim was Icarus Randolph, who was fatally shot by police on July 4 when his family could not calm him down. He had just returned from Iraq and was according to his family suicidal and suffering from PTSD. When police arrived on the scene, Randolph approached police with a knife when they attempted to halt him with a taser.

According to KAKE-TV, his family is still distressed that they called the police for help and ended up burying Randolf.

Many of his family members, including his mother and siblings were at the vigil Tuesday in support of change.

The family of Karen Jackson was also there in support of change. Jackson was mentally unstable and when police responded to her family’s domestic disturbance call in July 2012, Jackson approached police with a knife, according to KAKE-TV, when they opened fire.

She died later that day from her injuries.

“Ferguson is going on right here in Wichita,” Dean said. “It is time for change.”

Sunflower Community Action, a Wichita-based group, was in attendance Tuesday with a list of demands for the Wichita Police Department.

The group said it feels all current police officers should undergo psychological testing and crisis intervention treatment. Also, that the body count of each officer should become public information.

According to the group, eight out of 510 Wichita police officers have received crisis intervention training.

The group would like to see each officer have a body camera at all times while on duty, Dean said. If not, protesters said they feel like officers should not have a gun.

All these demands were read in a statement prepared by the Sunflower Coalition and read by Dean on Tuesday.

Protestors of all races and ages joined together to chant “No cameras, no guns” for hours on Tuesday evening.

According to KAKE-TV, some of the same people also got together on Friday to hold signs in protest, this time at the corner of Kellogg and Rock Road.

Law enforcement allowed the people to protest until they tried to stand in the street, then were asked to follow traffic laws. No one was arrested from this protest.

WSU alumnus and community activist A.J. Bohannon, who was at both events, said as an African-American in Wichita, he is scared to leave his house at night because of tension.

“We will continue to do things like this,” he said, “to make sure our voices are heard and the things that are being promised actually happen.”