JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — After a week of walking from the Ferguson, Mo., home of Michael Brown, whose killing by a police officer set off a national debate on race and police tactics, demonstrators led by the N.A.A.C.P. arrived at another home on Friday: the official residence of Gov. Jay Nixon.
There, near the end of their 130-mile journey from the St. Louis suburbs, more than 100 people chanted the now-familiar “hands up, don’t shoot” and carried signs protesting Mr. Brown’s death and that of the Staten Island resident Eric Garner.
“We marched because Michael Brown’s life mattered,” said Cornell William Brooks, the N.A.A.C.P. president. “We marched because Eric Garner mattered. We marched because our children’s lives matter. Black lives matter. We march because all lives matter.”
The rights group has asked that Mr. Nixon appoint a special prosecutor to examine Mr. Brown’s case after a St. Louis County grand jury chose not to indict Darren Wilson, the officer who shot him.