>> reporter: gwen woods chokes up recalling how her 27-year-old son mario woods was shot by police in bay view last december. woods was a the shoog suspect. the victim's mother said what happened to her son was an execution. >> your city said guess what. you're an animal and you don't deserve it. >> reporter: police say woods was ordered to drop his five and refused. they fired several rounds. his mother's pain is shared by these other mothers of young black and latino men also is not and killed by police. their cases are still open with lingering questions. they gathered on the steps of the hall of justice asking charges be brought against officers in wood's case. >> you need to come on out of that office and stop playing around and charge these police with the murder of mario woods. >> reporter: earlier in the day, a legal step forward for another bay-area family. >> we filed a federal civil rights lawsuit today in order to bring the family the justice that it deserves. >> six months ago lieu ice gongora was shot. his attorney say he was sitting against a wall. he charged at them wi