Crowd gathers in Brooklyn to demand justice for Akai Gurley

EAST NEW YORK (WABC) -- Akai Gurley's 2-year-old daughter led a march of hundreds demanding justice for her father.

Gurley was shot and killed last month by an NYPD officer who was patrolling the stairwells of the Louis Pink houses in Brooklyn with his gun in his hand, when police say it accidentally went off. However, the message protesters have is different.

Several of the people who showed up for the march from the Pink Houses to where Gurley was killed, to Police Service Area 2, came from other states to join in. Paul Mark made his way from Connecticut - not just for Gurley, but for what Gurley's death represents to him - brutality that he wants to see end.

"It's time for change, you know, I realize the world is changing around us, and I realize I want to be a part of change," Mark says, "I don't want to be a spectator, I want to be a person who makes change."

The protest and march is on the same day Officer Rafael Ramos was laid to rest. Mayor Bill de Blasio had asked demonstrators to not protest until the funerals of both Ramos and Wenjian Liu. March organizers say this had been planned before the officers were killed, and they did not want to reschedule, telling Eyewitness News that nothing was put on hold when Gurley died.

"Nothing else stops, and it's very sad that people are being painted as savages and as animals, and as people who are inconsiderate when we're doing the most powerful, most considerate thing we can do, and that is to organize within the communities we're in this situation - police brutality is a major issue," says march organizer Kerbie Joseph.

It is unclear if Gurley's family and the protesters will get the justice they are looking for. At this point, there has been no update from the Brooklyn DA as to whether a grand jury has been selected to look over Gurley's case.