People gathered outside the Peoria County Courthouse to protest for racial equity just before the start of the Sean Grayson trial, with media outlets lining up to cover the event.

The protesters gathered outside the courthouse as jury selection began inside for a case that was moved to Peoria County from Sangamon County because of the swell of attention the case garnered there.

Those attending the trial, which is expected to last a week and a half, will be greeted by protests around the courthouse in downtown Peoria, where the trial was moved after Grayson's attorneys, Daniel Fultz and Mark Wykoff, were granted a motion.