Lewis Marien • Daily Egyptian Desmon Walker, left, a junior from Champaign studying business management and president of the Alpha Phi Alpha SIU student chapter, and JaPone Johnson, a senior from Chicago studying criminal justice participate in the Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Rally Monday in front of Grinnell Hall. Alpha Phi Alpha and Alpha Kappa Alpha organized the rally that featured guest speakers talking about the recent violence in Ferguson, Mo. “We wanted this event to be peaceful and basically shed light on what happened and not necessarily the senseless things following after the rioting,” Walker said.