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SALT LAKE CITY — It's been six days since a grand jury decided not to indict a Ferguson police officer in the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown.
It that time there have been protests throughout the country, including Salt Lake City, but Sunday there was a change of attitude and a call for peace from leaders of different religious faiths.
In the days following the announcement there has been violence and protest, but Sunday on the sidewalk just outside the Salt Lake County Sheriff's office there was something different: a prayer, a call for peace and a call for conversation.
"No matter where we are on the issue we need to listen to one another," said Rev. Jerrod B. Lowry of the Community of Grace Presbyterian Church.
Leaders of different faiths throughout the Salt Lake Valley and members of law enforcement joined together for one common goal.
"It's an opportunity to stand together and to hear from each other," said Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder.
In sharing their faith, they also shared four minutes of silence — the four minutes of silence the Brown family asked for and that never happened following the announcement. Not everyone in attendance shared the same beliefs in God or the same beliefs on the Michael Brown case.
"Hearing the decision hurt me to my core and brought tears of righteous indignation to my eyes," said Rev. Vinnetta Golphin-Wilkerson of the Granger Christian Church.
They share the same beliefs in this community.
"The conditions that breed distrust between the community and law enforcement can be healed," Golphin-Wilkerson said.
Although for many in attendance healing will take time, the process began Sunday.
