Hundreds of people attended the funeral of Sandra Bland on Saturday at the DuPage African Methodist Episcopal Church in Lisle, Illinois outside of Chicago to commemorate the woman whose untimely death in Texas jail cell on July 13 has further galvanized a national call demanding something be done about the extreme levels of police violence and the pervasive mistreatment of black women, men, and other minorities across the country.

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Though an official autopsy report released Friday found that the available evidence suggests Bland hung herself inside her jail cell three days after being arrested following a confrontation with an officer who pulled her over for failing to signal, many of her family and friends—as well as members of the larger public—have questioned those findings and are demanding further investigation.

As the Chicago Tribune reported:

Among those attending the funeral was local resident Hank Brown, who told the Tribune, “I don’t know Sandra, and I don’t know what happened. But I do know she didn’t have to die. There’s an epidemic of police terror in this country, and people need to stand up.”

When it was time for Bland’s mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, to speak at her daughter’s funeral, she reportedly addressed those gathered without shedding tears, but with a steady voice as she called for justice.

“The fact is,” she said, “I’m the mom, and I still don’t know what happened to my baby… I want to know what happened to my baby. I’m gonna find out what happened to my baby.” Referencing her daughter’s role as an advocate for racial justice and her personal musings on the subject on social media under #SandySpeaks, her mother continued by saying, “My baby has spoken. She’s still speaking and no, she didn’t kill herself.”