"I want to be visible," Charles Davis, the owner of the Ferguson Burger Bar with his wife Kizzie, told St. Louis NBC affiliate KSDK about why he didn’t board up his windows. "I just put my faith in God for nothing to happen."

AlliedBarton Inc., a Pennsylvania-based security company wanted the department to allow its guards to work in the St. Louis area before fingerprint checks were completed, saying the process “limits our ability to provide our clients the increased coverage they are requested during this time,” according to a letter obtained by the Post-Dispatch. A spokeswoman for the public relations company that handles media relations for AlliedBarton declined a internview Wednesday with International Business Times.

G4S Secure Solutions Inc., a Florida-based security company, asked that 350 security guards with licenses from other states be waived from Missouri’s licensing requirements, according to the Post-Dispatch. The company, which reportedly has Wells Fargo, Bank of America, American Water and Trader Joe’s as clients, could not be reached for comment by International Business Times.

The requests by the two companies come as St. Louis braces for protests