Residents sought a return to normal on Thursday as business owners boarded up windows and cleared away debris following unrest over a grand jury decision’s not to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black 18-year-old.
Protesters continued to hold scattered demonstrations, including a group that rushed into City Hall in St louis, the city neighbouring Ferguson, on Wednesday screaming “Shame, shame.”
Police locked down the building and called in more than a hundred extra officers. Three people were arrested.
About 200 demonstrators marched through downtown St louis and held a mock trial of Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown during an Aug. 9 struggle.