About 100 people rallied outside the Western District headquarters of the St. Paul Police Department on Tuesday evening to protest the fatal shooting of William “Billy” Hughes by its officers.

Sue GoodStar, an elder with Native Lives Matter, said Hughes’ death is another in a long line of “stolen lives on stolen land.”

“Why are Native people being gunned down on our own land?” she asked.

GoodStar and others who spoke at the roughly two-hour demonstration demanded that body-camera footage of the shooting be immediately released and that his body be turned over to his family.

St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter on Tuesday urged the department to expedite the release of the footage, but Police Chief Todd Axtell said it will take up to 10 days.

“The cops came, he opened the door, and they gunned him down in cold fricken blood,” GoodStar said. “All they have to say is ‘I feared for my life,’ and they get away with murder.”

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which is investigating Hughes’ death, has not yet released the details of what led to the shooting.

Sydney Brown, a cousin of Thurman Blevins, who was shot to death by police in Minneapolis in June, called for the prosecution of the officers who killed both men.

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“They did not deserve to die,” Brown said of Blevins and Hughes.

The crowd left the police station at Hamline and St. Anthony avenues about 8 p.m. to march east along University Avenue chanting, “No justice, no peace! Prosecute the police!”

The march ended in front of the duplex on St. Anthony Avenue where Hughes was killed. From the front steps, his family thanked the marchers for their support.