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   (Reuters) - Missouri's governor ordered hundreds more National   
   Guard troops on Tuesday to a St. Louis suburb rocked by rioting   
   and looting after a grand jury declined to indict a white   
   policeman in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager.   
      
   Attorneys for the family of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old shot   
   to death in Ferguson by officer Darren Wilson in August,   
   condemned as biased the St. Louis County grand jury process that   
   led to Monday's decision not to bring charges.   
      
   The killing in Ferguson, a predominantly black city with a white-   
   dominated power structure, underscores the occasionally tense   
   nature of U.S. race relations and sometimes strained ties   
   between African-American communities and the police.   
      
      
   The grand jury's decision sparked racially charged protests that   
   were more intense than unrest that erupted in the immediate   
   aftermath of the shooting, but still much smaller than those   
   that followed the acquittal of police officers in the beating of   
   black motorist Rodney King in Los Angeles two decades ago.   
      
   "Last night the rioters did some things to our community we all   
   couldn’t have woke up this morning imagining,” Captain Ron   
   Johnson of Missouri Highway Patrol told reporters.   
      
   In Ferguson, about a dozen buildings, including a pizza shop and   
   a beauty parlor, burned overnight as protesters took to the   
   streets in anger. Police said protesters fired guns at them, lit   
   patrol cars on fire and hurled bricks into their lines.   
      
   Police fired tear gas and flash-bang canisters at demonstrators,   
   and 61 people were arrested. Police were also investigating as   
   suspicious a body found in a car in Ferguson, and couldn't rule   
   out a link between the death and the rioting.   
      
   Meanwhile, Ferguson's mayor James Knowles said the National   
   Guard "was not deployed in enough time to save all of our   
   businesses."   
      
   "The decision to delay the deployment of the National Guard is   
   deeply concerning," Knowles told a news conference. "We are   
   asking that the governor make available and deploy all necessary   
   resources to prevent the further destruction of property and the   
   preservation of life in the city of Ferguson."   
      
   Governor Jay Nixon said that about 700 guard troops were   
   deployed on Monday and hundreds more will be out on Tuesday   
   night to protect homes and businesses.   
      
   "This community deserves to have peace," Nixon told a news   
   conference, adding that more than 2,200 guardsmen are now in the   
   region. "We must do better and we will."   
      
   The unrest came despite calls by President Barack Obama and   
   others for police and protesters to exercise restraint. Police   
   had been preparing for months but admitted they were overtaken   
   by the violent events that unfolded.   
      
   U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters he was   
   disappointed by the violent protesters he saw in Ferguson and   
   has asked for a review to identify and isolate “criminal   
   elements” from peaceful protesters.   
      
   BROKEN PROCESS   
      
   The grand jury decision shifted the legal spotlight to an   
   ongoing U.S. Justice Department investigation into whether   
   Wilson violated Brown's civil rights by intentionally using   
   excessive force and whether Ferguson police systematically   
   violate rights by using excessive force or discrimination.   
      
   Holder said he had been briefed by Justice Department officials   
   overseeing federal probes surrounding Brown's death, but did not   
   say when investigators might complete their work.   
      
   Obama asked Americans on Tuesday to be "constructive" by   
   engaging in debate about racial tensions and law enforcement. He   
   also said demonstrators who engage in criminal acts should be   
   prosecuted.   
      
   Brown family lawyer Benjamin Crump said the grand jury   
   proceedings were unfair because the prosecutor in the case had a   
   conflict of interest and Wilson was not properly cross-examined.   
      
   "The process should be indicted," Crump said, adding that the   
   family wants police to be equipped with body video cameras to   
   provide an indisputable account of their actions.   
      
   Schools in Ferguson and its surrounding cities were closed on   
   Tuesday and city offices in Ferguson were also shut.   
      
   "This is going to happen again," said Ferguson area resident   
   James Hall, 56, as he walked past a smoldering building. "If   
   they had charged him with something, this would not have   
   happened to Ferguson."   
      
   In the city of St. Louis, where windows were broken and traffic   
   was briefly stopped on a major highway overnight, Police Chief   
   Sam Dotson vowed a stronger response on Tuesday night.   
      
   About 1,000 demonstrators gathered outside a federal courthouse   
   in St. Louis blocking a road and chanting, “This what democracy   
   looks like.”   
      
   Protests were also held on Tuesday in New York, Atlanta,   
   Baltimore, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington.   
      
   Wilson, who could have faced charges ranging from involuntary   
   manslaughter to first-degree murder, thanked his supporters in a   
   letter attributed to him on a Facebook page for those who have   
   rallied to his side, saying "your dedication is amazing."   
      
   Attorneys for Wilson, who was placed on administrative leave   
   since the shooting, said he had been following his training and   
   the law when he shot Brown.   
      
   Wilson told the grand jury Brown had tried to grab his gun and   
   he felt his life was in danger when he fired, according to   
   documents released by prosecutors.   
      
   "I said, 'Get back or I'm going to shoot you,'" Wilson said,   
   according to the documents. "He immediately grabs my gun and   
   says, 'You are too much of a pussy to shoot me.'"   
      
   (Additional reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee, Julia   
   Edwards in Washington, Carey Gillam in Kansas City, David Bailey   
   in Minneapolis, Fiona Ortiz and Mary Wisniewski in Chicago,   
   Laila Kearney and Letitia Stein in New York; Writing by Jon   
   Herskovitz and Cynthia Johnston; Editing by Will Dunham, Bernard   
   Orr)   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-usa-missouri-   
   shooting-idUSKCN0J80PR20141126   
      
         
      
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