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   (Reuters) - Police arrested scores of people in cities around   
   the United States who were protesting a Missouri grand jury's   
   decision not to indict a white police officer for killing an   
   unarmed black teenager, authorities said on Wednesday, but the   
   town where the shooting took place was a little calmer.   
      
   Protests in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta and elsewhere   
   came on a second night of street violence in the St. Louis   
   suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, where policeman Darren Wilson shot   
   to death 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9. The shooting has   
   highlighted the often-tense nature of U.S. race relations and   
   the strains between black communities and police.   
      
   There was less violence on the streets of Ferguson than on the   
   previous night, as the deployment of some 2,000 National Guard   
   troops to the area helped police prevent the rioting, looting   
   and arson that erupted on Monday night.   
      
   Police made 45 arrests in Ferguson from Tuesday night into early   
   Wednesday for offenses ranging from a couple of dozen   
   misdemeanors for unlawful assembly to five for assaulting law   
   enforcement officers. Thirty of the arrested listed Missouri   
   addresses and one was from Berlin, Germany, police said.   
      
   In other cities, demonstrators marched through city streets,   
   sometimes blocking traffic and scuffling with police. Police in   
   Boston said on Wednesday 45 people were arrested in protests   
   overnight that drew more than a thousand demonstrators.   
      
   Wilson said he was acting in self-defense and his conscience was   
   clear. He told ABC News that there was nothing he could have   
   done differently that would have prevented Brown's death. But   
   the parents of the slain teenager said they did not accept the   
   officer's version of the events.   
      
   "I don't believe a word of it," Brown's mother Lesley McSpadden   
   told "CBS This Morning" on Wednesday.   
      
   Tensions between police and black Americans have simmered for   
   decades, with many blacks feeling the U.S. legal system and law   
   enforcement authorities do not treat them fairly. For example,   
   blacks account for disproportionate percentages of the overall   
   prison population and of the inmates sentenced to death.   
      
   The crowds in Ferguson were smaller and more controlled than on   
   Monday, when about a dozen businesses were torched and others   
   were looted amid rock-throwing and sporadic gunfire from   
   protesters and volleys of tear gas fired by police. More than 60   
   people were arrested then.   
      
   "Generally, it was a much better night," St. Louis County Police   
   Chief Jon Belmar told reporters early on Wednesday, adding there   
   was very little arson or gunfire, and that lawlessness was   
   confined to a relatively small group.   
      
   In New York, where police used pepper spray to control the crowd   
   after protesters tried to block the Lincoln Tunnel and   
   Triborough Bridge, 10 demonstrators were arrested, police said.   
      
   Protesters in Los Angeles threw water bottles and other objects   
   at officers outside city police headquarters and later   
   obstructed both sides of a downtown freeway with makeshift   
   roadblocks and debris, authorities said.   
      
   Atlanta police made 24 arrests Tuesday night, including some in   
   a group of about 150 people who broke away from an otherwise   
   peaceful protest of more than 1,000 people and blocked traffic   
   on a downtown freeway, Mayor Kasim Reed said on Wednesday.   
      
   Reed said protesters also threw rocks at police cars and damaged   
   property, including a bank and a taxi cab. No officers were   
   hurt, the mayor said, adding the city police force used a   
   strategy of “available force with a light touch.”   
      
   “I’m not going to have the city of Atlanta look like it’s under   
   martial law,” he said.   
      
   Two Milwaukee police officers suffered minor injuries on Tuesday   
   when they tried to stop protesters from entering the BMO Harris   
   Bradley Center, where the Milwaukee Bucks were playing an NBA   
   basketball game, police said. No arrests were made.   
      
   In Oakland, California, protesters set rubbish on fire in the   
   middle of a street and swept onto a downtown stretch of   
   Interstate 980, briefly halting traffic.   
      
   Four people were arrested for blocking a roadway in Denver,   
   where police said several hundred people turned out for a   
   protest march.   
      
   As the first black president, Barack Obama has come under   
   pressure from some in the black community to speak out more on   
   racial issues and to assume a more visible role regarding the   
   Ferguson shooting.   
      
   Obama remained cautious in his comments in the immediate   
   aftermath of the Ferguson shooting, but has been more expansive   
   in recent days including remarks at the White House after the   
   grand jury's decision.   
      
   He said deep distrust exists between police and minorities in   
   part due to America's "legacy of racial discrimination," adding   
   that "communities of color aren't just making these problems up."   
      
   Obama's Justice Department continues to consider bringing   
   federal civil rights charges against the officer.   
      
   (Additional reporting by Susan Heavey in Washington, Brendan   
   O'Brien in Milwaukee, Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles, Carey   
   Gillam in Kansas City, David Bailey in Minneapolis, Fiona Ortiz   
   and Mary Wisniewski in Chicago, Jonathan Kaminsky in New   
   Orleans, and Laila Kearney and Letitia Stein in New York, Eric   
   M. Johnson in Seattle, Colleen Jenkins in North Carolina.;   
   Writing by Frank McGurty; Editing by Will Dunham)   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-usa-missouri-   
   shooting-idUSKCN0J80PR20141126   
      
        
      
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