Rachel Riley’s 23rd Street PAC to prosecutors: ‘We want justice!’

You can hear them chanting from blocks away: “We want justice! Prosecutors out! Aren’t you fed up? We want closure! Ain’t gonna take it no more.”

Rachel Riley, head of an East Side political action committee called the 23rd Street Nonviolent Marchers, is leading a protest until 4 p.m. today on the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse. She seeks closure in her son Larry’s murder. No one has ever been charged in the shooting, which took place in front of Truman Medical Center on October 30, 2003. Riley’s not angry with the Kansas City Police Department, she says, but she’s fed up with the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office.