BOSTON (WHDH) - A group of about 200 demonstrators gathered at the State House on Wednesday night to demand Gov. Charlie Baker appoint a special prosecutor and reopen all cases of police brutality in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Action Against Police Brutality joined family members of victims who have been impacted by police brutality in an effort to bring change to the Commonwealth following the shooting of Jacob Blake, who was shot seven times in the back by police as he tried to get into a car while they were trying to arrest him in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last month.

Those in attendance could be seen holding signs that read, “Reopen the cases.”

“You have nine families in Massachusetts who have called on the governor to reopen past cases of police brutality all of them are currently engaged in the fight for their own loved ones who never received justice in the courts,” protest organizer Brock Satter said.

Hope Coleman spoke at the rally on the steps of the State House and recalled the moments her son Terrance was shot by police at her apartment after he refused to go to the hospital. She said it never should have happened.

“The commissioner at that time gets up on the news and says the mother is a liar. She wasn’t there at all. That’s a damn lie. I was with my child. I would never leave my child. I wish I had never called 9-1-1,” she told the crowd that had assembled.

“I have to go to the cemetery on the holidays while everyone else is celebrating. It’s time for a change! It’s time for a change now! Reopen the cases,” Coleman said.

The demonstrators held a “Justice for Jacob Blake” march to City Hall that ended at Peter’s Park in the South End.

Organizers hope the park will be renamed in honor of Terrance Coleman.

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