“If Darren Wilson gets off, you all better bring every army you all have got. ’Cause it’s going down,” said one speaker.

The protesters marched out of the council chamber chanting and holding their hands up. At 8:12 p.m., activist Anthony Shahid — who had repeatedly referred to Stenger as “boy” — gathered them in the lobby outside for 4½ minutes of silence, to commemorate the 4½ hours that Brown’s body lay in the street.

“What you just felt, 4½ minutes, think what the family felt for 4½ hours,” Shahid said.

The next 35 minutes were filled with loud chanting of the slogans that have been hallmarks of the protests “No justice, no peace... hey hey, ho ho, killer cops have got to go... We’re marching all night long... hands up, don’t shoot.”

Protesters then marched noisily around the building escalators several times, then went down one flight and out onto Central Avenue, where the chanting continued for about half an hour. About 50 people marched two blocks in front of the county police headquarters, then headed toward the Justice Center, where McCulloch works, but stopped before a small cluster of Clayton police officers across Central and Carondelet avenues.

A few protesters screamed at the officers, who stood with little movement.

Zaki Baruti, another protest leader, said they planned no action in Clayton Wednesday “except to call Stenger’s office and find out his decision.”

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