More than a hundred congressional staffers, along with a few members of Congress, walked out of their offices on Thursday to show solidarity with the families of Mike Brown and Eric Garner and peaceful protesters across the country.

The action was organized by the Congressional Black Associates, along with the Congressional Asian Pacific American Staff Association and the Congressional Hispanic Staff Association.

“Even though we go to work in these prestigious buildings among prestigious people, we go home and we’re still profiled, we still are part of those statistics,” one congressional staffer told the Huffington Post. “It could have been any one of us who was Eric Garner, who was Mike Brown.”

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across the country in outrage over grand juries failing to indict either police officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed unarmed Black teen Mike Brown, or officer Daniel Pantaleo, who was videotaped putting Eric Garner in an ultimately fatal choke hold despite Garner’s pleas that he couldn’t breathe.

Protesters have blocked roads and staged “die-ins” in D.C. and other cities on an almost nightly basis since the news of no indictment in the Garner case.

Staffers took to the steps of the Capitol at 3:30 pm on Thursday, a busy workday for members of Congress in the middle of trying to pass a massive spending bill before the government shut down at midnight.

They held up their hands in the “Hands up, don’t shoot!” posture made famous by protesters of Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri. Some yelled out Garner’s last words, “I can’t breathe.”

“Today as people throughout the nation protest for justice in our lands, forgive us when we have failed to lift our voices for those who couldn’t speak or breathe for themselves,” said Senate Chaplain Barry Black as he led the group in prayer.

Reps. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Marc Veasey (D-TX), and Joaquín Castro (D-TX) were among the members of Congress who showed up to the walk-out.

“Democrats and Republicans across the country are incredibly frustrated by what happened in Ferguson, Staten Island, and elsewhere, and this protest reflects the mistrust they have in the integrity of the criminal justice system,” Cummings said in a statement.

The protest comes the same week that the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on civil rights calling for broad criminal justice reform.

During that hearing Tuesday, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) decried a system that has led to “more African-Americans now in prison, under criminal supervision—prison, jail, probation, parole—than all the slaves in 1850.”