Demanding `` justice for Mike Brown '' and other African-Americans killed by police , protesters hit the streets Friday in eastern Missouri , kicking off four days of demonstrations , discussions and civil disobedience . `` Today is not the start of an event , today is the beginning of your movement , '' a man said Friday through a megaphone , with protesters in the crowd echoing his words . `` From this day forward , we say no more . We say enough . '' The event , which has been dubbed `` Ferguson October '' and the `` Weekend of Resistance , '' centers on the 18-year-old Brown . Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed the black teenager on August 9 . Authorities have said Brown attacked the officer and tried to take his gun ; Brown 's camp contends the unarmed teenager had his hands in the air when he was shot . The dispute soon spilled over onto the streets of the St. Louis suburb , sometimes violently , as protesters and police clashed . That public discord has died down somewhat , though the events Friday through Monday aim to keep the demonstrators ' message out there -- both to demand Wilson 's arrest and to bring attention , more generally , to what they describe as racial profiling and police violence elsewhere as well . `` Our country can no longer deny the epidemic of police violence facing black and brown communities , '' the movement 's website states . `` Mike Brown is now part of a long list of people like John Crawford , Ezell Ford , Eric Garner , Oscar Grant and countless others who have been unjustly killed by police . Their lives mattered . '' The first event happened Friday afternoon under rainy skies in Clayton , about 8 miles south of Ferguson . Demonstrators picked this spot because it 's the office of St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch . For months , McCulloch has faced -- and resisted -- months of calls to push harder the case against Wilson or to recuse himself entirely amid allegations he 's too cozy with police and not a good representative for the local black community . Hundreds of people , many of them wearing rain jackets or carrying umbrellas , alternated chants of `` do n't shoot ! '' and `` hands up '' -- a reference to their claim Brown was shot with his hands high , in apparent surrender . A few people addressed the crowd with megaphones , before the crowd moved toward McCulloch 's office . `` Mike Brown means ... we 've got to fight back ! '' the spirited , if soaked , crowd chanted . McCulloch 's office is presenting the case to a St. Louis County grand jury , which could indict Wilson on charges related to Brown 's death or opt not to . The deadline for the grand jury to reach a decision is January 7 . But Brown 's death is n't the only one on protesters ' minds . There are also the high-profile deaths of men like Garner , Grant and others , who died at the hands of police officers across the country . That includes a shooting Wednesday , just 12 miles from Ferguson in St. Louis . Protests erupted there after a white police officer fatally shot another black teenager . But this one was very different from the Brown case , because this black teenager was armed , according to authorities . Many activists have expressed dismay not just at one particular case , but at what they characterize as a disturbing pattern of police being too heavy-handed , especially against blacks . That includes anger over how law enforcement handled protesters who hit the streets in the days after Brown 's shooting . `` I 'm fed up with ( what 's ) been going on in my neighborhood and this police brutality , '' a Ferguson resident said at Friday 's protest . `` I 'm fed up with it . '' Four days capped by 'civil disobedience ' Friday 's march was the start of four days of planned events in the same vein . Demonstrators will invoke a Mexican Halloween tradition , and they will erect a Day of the Dead altar on Friday night in Ferguson to memorialize Brown and the deaths of any other loved ones offered up by participants . The altars feature candles , flowers , and photos of the deceased . Participants also plan to hold a silent candlelight march carrying a mirrored coffin 2 miles from the altar site to the Ferguson Police Department , organizers said . On Saturday , activists and protesters plan to march through downtown St. Louis and rally at Kiener Plaza in the center of downtown to `` show our strength as we stand united against police violence , both here in Ferguson and across the country '' and to send a message of `` Not One More , '' organizers said . On Sunday , several events will be held in St. Louis , including an evening meeting of `` reflection and resistance '' at St. Louis University 's Chaifetz Arena with author and professor Cornel West , rapper-activist Tef Poe , poet and activist Suheir Hammad , and Rabbi Susan Talve of St. Louis ' Central Reform Congregation . On Monday , a closing ceremony will feature participants removing items from the Day of the Dead memorial and taking them home `` to seed work in their community , '' said organizers , which includes the groups Hands Up United , Organization for Black Struggle , and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment . The organizers seek `` to build momentum for a nationwide movement against police violence , '' their website said . The official schedule also calls for `` a series of actions throughout the Ferguson and St. Louis area '' exercising civil disobedience . `` Power concedes nothing without a demand , '' the organizers said . 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A protest ##or calls event the start ` ` of your movement ; ... we say no more '' Thousands of people march on the office of the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney . More events are planned through Monday ; they will include ` ` civil disobedience '' They say they want justice for black men , like Michael Brown , killed by white police .