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The Rev. Al Sharpton addressed a packed St. Louis church Sunday, saying Officer Darren Wilsons resignation from his job was a distraction from the Brown familys quest for justice.

Michael Browns parents joined the audience of around 3,000 at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist, singing, stomping and praying for spiritual guidance as they wrestle with a grand jurys decision to not indict Wilson for killing the unarmed teen.

You can't heal leaving the injured out of the process ... The afflicted is the family that remains, Sharpton said, alluding to the outrage at the legal process.

On Saturday Wilsons decision to resign from the Ferguson police force dominated headlines, which didnt sit well with Sharpton.

It wasn't about Darren Wilsons job, it was about Michael Browns justice, Sharpton said as churchgoers consoled Browns parents, Michael Brown Sr. and Lesley McSpadden, who sat on opposite sides of the church.

The fiery civil rights advocate also addressed St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch, who came under withering criticism for his unorthodox approach to the grand jury process.

We lost our round, but the fight is not over. You won the first round, Mr. Prosecutor, but don't take your gloves off, Sharpton said, comparing the anger in Ferguson to previous generations fight for civil rights rooted in Montgomery, Ala.

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Rev. Al Sharpton preaches to a crowd on Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014, at Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis. Family members of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by a white Ferguson, Mo., police officer, attended ... more >

The Rev. Al Sharpton said the resignation of Darren Wilson the police officer who fatally shot teen Michael Brown on Aug. 9 hardly constitutes justice, and in an address to a St. Louis church, implored the congregants to stay the course and continue the protests.

The fight aint over, Mr. Sharpton said in an address before the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Newsmax reported.

He said a lot of healing still has to take place among the community members and Browns family.

Reporters started calling me, saying the officer had resigned from his job and said that he hopes it would lead to healing the city. But you cant heal leaving the injured out of the process, Mr. Sharpton said, adding that Browns family members have open wounds from the incident, Newsmax reported.

Mr. Sharpton went on, referring to the ongoing federal investigations headed by the Department of Justice to look at civil rights issues involving Officer Wilson and the Ferguson Police Department.

We lost the round, but the fight aint over, he said, Newsmax reported. You won the first round, Mr. Prosecutor [Bob McCulloch], but dont cut your gloves off, cause the fights not over. Justice will come to Ferguson.

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Al Sharpton on Ferguson: 'We lost the round, but the fight ain't over'

The White House response to Ferguson wouldnt be complete without a meeting with Al Sharpton, the infamous agitator who has become President Barack Obamas go-to man on race, in the words of a Politico headline from last August.

So Sharpton was inevitably one of the civil-rights leaders at a White House meeting Monday.

The president no doubt passed up the opportunity to direct Sharpton to the Treasury Department up the street, which would surely love to have him visit and make good on all the taxes he has avoided paying through the years.

A New York Times report found that there are $4.5 million in state and federal tax liens against him and his businesses.

If the rest of the country had Sharptons accountant, there would be no reason for anyone to call for tax cuts. Our complex and onerous tax code would be rendered irrelevant by simple nonpayment.

Despite a disdain for the Internal Revenue Service that would make the average anarcho-libertarian blush (among other embarrassments and scandals), Sharpton has leveraged himself into respectability with the Democratic establishment by making himself central to any national racial controversy.

By rights, he should have given up any pretense to criminal forensics after his defamatory role in the Tawana Brawley hoax in the 1980s, but there he was at Ferguson, Mo., suggesting the worst despite what turned out to be strong evidence that Officer Darren Wilson acted lawfully.

When the grand jury found there was insufficient evidence to indict Wilson, Sharpton pronounced that the Ferguson protesters had lost the battle, but not the war.

What are they going to do to win, go out and find another cop to falsely accuse of a racial assassination and attempt to railroad into an indictment and conviction?

The Ferguson story has progressed from the tragedy of the initial incident to the outrage of the violence of the protests to a new phase of charade. The federal government must pretend to do something because it must . . . do something.

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White House race charade: Irrelevant talk post-Ferguson

Adrees Latif/REUTERS Veteran civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton walks to greet Michael Brown Sr., the father of 18-year-old Michael Brown, after speaking under a makeshift tent next to the Flood Christian Church during Sunday service in Ferguson, Missouri November 30, 2014.

FERGUSON, Mo. On the seventh day they could not exactly rest, but there were signs that residents, protesters, police and business owners were beginning to turn an important corner amid the strife of the past week and the bitter divisions of the past months.

That is not to say the passions and tensions are evaporating on Fergusons streets, where plywood covers shattered windows and the National Guard stands vigil after dark over a dozen burned-out shells of small businesses. The looting and destruction came last Monday night, after it was announced that a grand jury would not indict Officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting Michael Brown, 18, on Aug. 9.

The Rev. Al Sharpton electrified a congregation of several hundred in a St. Louis church with a 50-minute address that was part protest speech, part theological call to action. Browns father, Michael Brown Sr., and mother, Lesley McSpadden, sat in the front row.

You won the first round, Mr. Prosecutor, but dont cut your gloves off, because the fight is not over, said the activist preacher and television commentator. Justice will come to Ferguson!

Sharpton said the looters and arsonists do not represent the young folk who are standing up and marching, and he urged more people, young and old, to join the spreading movement. They are the true patriots in this country, because they are asking for the system to correct itself.

God is going to use Michael to lead this nation to deal with police accountability, he said.

Amid Sharptons customary fire was the implicit message that the protests are pivoting justice for Brown is at the core, but now it is framed in national and historic terms.

Ferguson is to this battle what ... Selma was to the voting battle, Sharpton said. Local organizers have vowed that protests will continue indefinitely.

As Sharpton was concluding, at a news conference in Ferguson, Mayor James Knowles was proposing his vision of moving forward, outlining plans for what he said will be one of the first civilian review boards in the region to review complaints and suggestions about police procedures.

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