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FERGUSON, MO (KTVI)-The National Action Network, which was founded by Reverend Al Sharpton to peacefully advocate for civil rights, is sponsoring Justice for Michael Brown weekend this weekend in St. Louis. The four day event is meant to symbolize the four hours Michael Browns body remained in the street after his death.

One of those events is a Halloween giveaway Friday evening at St. Marks church where all the rest of the weekends events will be held.

The first event was held Friday morning in the city of St. Louis. The Leadership Breakfast included an appearance by Reverend Sharpton himself. Community leaders and young people got together to talk about the need for ongoing but non-violent protests to keep people engaged as the Michael Brown case continues through the justice system.

Michael Browns parents also attended that breakfast.

After his speech, Rev. Sharpton told reporters recent leaks about the grand jury proceedings are eroding the credibility of the process.

I would ask the prosecuting attorney to turn over the case to the federal prosecutors and to say that the grand jury is tainted. The confidence of the family has been shattered. As they said from the beginning. And he should turn this over to the federal government and lets have a fair and impartial grand jury.

Lesley McSpadden, Michael Browns mother, said, Be peaceful with your protesting. Keep supporting us and keep praying for us and we will get the justice we are waiting on. Thats all I have to say.

With regard to Reverend Sharptons call for a federal prosecutor, keep in mind there is a parallel federal investigation underway and that some of the leaks have come from someone involved at the federal level.

In the meantime, St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch repeated his pledge to release all the evidence presented to the grand jury if the members decide not to indict Officer Darren Wilson, who shot Brown on August 9.

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10/31/2014 AT 05:20 PM EDT

In the past four-and-a-half years, the 5'10" civil rights activist has gone from 305 lbs. to 129 lbs.

"I actually lost more weight than I am!" Sharpton tells PEOPLE, adding that he did it without surgery.

The reverend, 60, has gone through several body transformations throughout the years, first losing 30 lbs. while on a 43-day hunger strike in jail in 2001 and then putting the weight back on during his presidential run. The real turning point for him was getting criticism from his daughter.

"Around 2006, my youngest daughter Ashley poked me in the stomach and said, 'Dad, why are you so fat?' That kind of hurt my feelings. I grew up in civil rights and politics, so I'm pretty thick-skinned, but when your daughter says it, I started being conscious."

The MSNBC host started losing weight by weaning himself off of meats and starches, then became more strict about his diet in recent years.

On a typical day, Sharpton's breakfast consists of three slices of whole wheat toast along with a Juice Press "Doctor Earth" green juice and English breakfast tea sweetened with Stevia. Lunch is a basic salad with a banana and more tea.

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ST. LOUIS The Rev. Al Sharpton on Friday kicked off four days of symposiums, workshops and rallies to ask Ferguson activists to keep the focus on attaining justice for Michael Brown and his family.

"If there is not justice for this family then we have not achieved the goals of this movement," Sharpton told a gathering of about 125 supporters at the Jonas Hubbard Community Center Neighborhood Center on St. Louis' near north side.

Sharpton in brief remarks to reporters additionally reiterated a call for St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch to step aside. Sharpton wants the federal government to head the investigation into the death of Brown, the unarmed teen shot in August by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson.

He charged that leaks to the media about the events that unfolded on Canfield Drive the afternoon Brown was killed have "tainted" the process while "defaming and desecrating Michael Brown."

Sharpton said the leaks of internal investigation reports and the autopsy on Brown's body were designed to make the victim look like a thug (instead) of an unarmed young man who was shot and killed. There is no reason why probable cause (in the Brown case) has not been executed with the arrest of Wilson.

The Washington Post in a story posted a few hours after Sharpton's appearance cited anonymous sources in reporting that the U.S. Justice Department has "all but concluded they do not have a strong enough case to bring civil rights charges against" the Ferguson police officer.

A Justice Department spokesman labeled the Post report "idle speculation."

The Washington Post story follows by two weeks the findings of an almost identical article published in The New York Times.

Brown family attorney Anthony Gray called the Post story "a complete reiteration of the Times report, citing anonymous sources and trying to soften the blow of a possible non-indictment."

The stories, he added, "all seem to be directed at a drip affect" to ready the "public psyche" for a grand jury decision that may fall in Wilson's favor.

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