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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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With a grand jury decision and a local election looming, the Rev. Al Sharpton returned to St. Louis on Friday to renew calls for the federal prosecution of a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black 18-year-old in the nearby suburb of Ferguson.

The civil rights activist said leaks about the supposedly secret St. Louis County grand jury deliberations undermine the local inquiry into whether to indict Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson in Michael Brown's killing. The panel is expected to complete its review by mid-November, independent of Justice Department investigations into both Brown's death and the broader practices of the Ferguson department.

Legal analysts have said leaked information about Wilson's testimony to investigators could be an attempt to prepare the public for the possibility that the grand jury might recommend he not face charges.

"The grand jury is tainted. The confidence of the family has been shattered," Sharpton said after meeting briefly with Brown's parents and local activists at a breakfast rally before returning to New York. "We should turn this over to the federal government."

Sharpton's remarks were followed by a training of volunteer "justice disciples" who will monitor the police response to anticipated protests over the upcoming grand jury decision. He's scheduled to again join Brown's parents Monday at a get-out-the-vote rally in St. Louis, with a particular emphasis on a St. Louis County executive race that has largely become a referendum on Ferguson.

Sharpton, who delivered the eulogy at Brown's funeral and has joined Michael Brown Sr. and Lesley McSpadden at news conferences in Ferguson, Atlanta and Washington, said published reports suggesting Ferguson chief Tom Jackson was being forced to step down distract from the fundamental point of the Ferguson protests and what organizers call a broader social movement.

"Don't act like you can exchange a job for justice," he said. "To suggest that just changing who the chief is answers how this young man was killed is an insult to the intelligence."

Jackson, meanwhile, criticized Attorney General Eric Holder's recent call for "wholesale change" in the department.

The Ferguson chief told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Holder's comments in Washington this week were "irresponsible" while the federal investigations continue. Jackson said he is "low-hanging fruit" for critics but has no plans to resign.

"I think he's about to leave office and needs to say he accomplished something in Ferguson," Jackson said of Holder, who has announced his resignation but plans to remain in office until a replacement is confirmed.

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