Local reports say schools have closed for the day, as well as all after-school activities in the area have been cancelled in the city on edge.
Michael Brown’s family has confirmed that the grand jury has finished deliberations and a press conference is expected shortly.
The family has asked for four and a half minutes of silence to be observed, symbolic of the four and a half hours their son’s body lay in the street.
Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in August, was reportedly in the final stages of talks to resign from the police department. He maintains he did not act out of order, and that his resignation would be to ease tensions and protect his fellow officers.
