WHHS club Students Demand Action placed dozens of white roses around the flagpole in Blair Circle Sept. 19 to commemorate the victims of the mass shooting at Fifth Third Bank downtown. Three people were killed and two injured in the shooting on Sept. 6, while the shooter’s motive remains unknown.

Students Demand Action (SDA) is a new club led by a number of students including Yousuf Munir, ‘22, one of its co-presidents. Munir said that “It’s [SDA’s] duty as a club advocating for gun violence reform and as citizens to show support for these victims and their families.”

Alongside their white roses, SDA also held a donut sale with the profits “supporting the survivors, the victims and the victims’ families,” according to Munir.

SDA members have been running a social media blitz using the hashtags #CincinnatiStrong and #FifthThirdStrong on Instagram and Twitter.

As a new club, SDA plans to focus on “Getting people as involved as they can in local politics and… getting young people involved in politics, congressional and local,” Munir said. SDA was the largest nationwide student group during the walkouts and demonstrations last spring after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., and got approved as an official WHHS student club this month. Students Demand Action meets every Monday in Kelsey June’s room, 2307.