By Jim Salter and David A. Lieb
Smoke rose from the burned buildings and sidewalks were full of broken glass on Tuesday morning after Ferguson stormed the decision of a Grand Jury to indict no white police officer in the army killing of non-black 18 Michael Brown.
Firefighters put out the blackened remains of some company on Tuesday morning and at least one building was still burning. Some shops Ferguson, who had not burned broken display windows, but the streets of the suburbs of St. Louis were mostly clear.
Protests Monday night were much more destructive than any others that the August 9 Brown Death damaged more than a dozen heavily destroyed or returned industry. The authorities said they had hundreds of shots, which belongs to a time prevented the fire brigade to fight the flames.
There were 61 arrests at night, many Ferguson theft and burglary, police said spokesman Brian Schellman St. Louis County. There were 21 arrests in St. Louis, where protesters smashed shops along South Grand Avenue, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay said.
Jon Belmar, police chief of St. Louis County, said that while his agency could provide 10,000 agents, "I do not think we people who really intend to destroy a community to stop."
The jury's decision means that official Darren Wilson, who is white, will face no state prosecution for killing Brown, whose death ignited deep ethnic tensions among many black Americans and the police.
Attorney Bob McCulloch, said the jury of nine whites and three blacks met on 25 different days for three months, he heard more than 70 hours of testimony of 60 witnesses, including three forensic experts and blood experts, toxicology and weapons fire.
"They are the only people who listened and questioned all the witnesses and all the evidence," he said, adding that the judges "poured his heart and soul in the process."
In the first flash diseases after the announcement of the grand jury, Belmar said he told the officers to retire, suggesting that the situation bypass, as if it were a game or a baseball Festival were. But soon the situation, "it got out of control," while protesters ransacked shops and set fire to several cars, including at least two police cars. Officials finally threw tear gas inside armored vehicles to disperse the crowd.
How McCulloch read her statement, the mother of Michael Brown, Lesley McSpadden, sat down on a car listening to a program of the call. When he learned of the decision, they began to be sorrowful, and began to shout before that the followers.
The crowd erupted in anger, in the direction of the barricade, where riot police stood. You hit the barricade and the police started beating with objects with a megaphone. The officers stood firm.
Representing cited for almost 45 minutes a defensive McCulloch again and again what he said was inaccurate and contradictory testimony. When asked by a journalist whether be one of the accounts to perjury, said: "I really think this is what they saw, but did not."
The prosecutor also criticized the media, said that "the biggest challenge," his office was "a new cycle of 24 hours and an insatiable hunger for something? Nothing? Talk about it."
McCulloch never mentioned that Brown was unarmed when he was killed.
Submitted Brown family a statement that it "deeply disappointed", but asked the public to "channel their frustration in a way that will bring positive change. We need to work together to make the system that must be done to fix it."
Shortly after the announcement, authorities released more than 1,000 pages of large documents jury, including the testimony of Wilson.
Wilson told the jury that he go Brown and a friend on the street and met when he said to. Through the gate, Brown responded with an expletive Wilson then realized that Brown had a handful of cigars, "and that's when it clicked for me," he said, referring to a report of Minutes of previous radius of a flight to a nearby store.
Wilson said he asked a dispatcher to send additional police and then put his vehicle in front of Brown and his friend. When attempting to open the door, Mr. Wilson Brown said behind closed closed.
The officer said he pushed the door with Brown and Brown hit him in the face. Wilson told jurors he thought: "What to do to not defeated in the interior of my car I want."
"I have my weapon," Wilson said Grand Jury. "I said," Get, or I'll kill you. "
"I immediately grabbed the gun and said," You're too pussy to shoot me, "Wilson said jurors He said Brown took the gun with his right hand and twisted." Clava in my hip. "
When asked why the need to draw his weapon felt Wilson said jurors he was able to drill on the other hand, was "hit me or worse."
After taking in the vehicle, Brown and Wilson fled gave chase. Eventually, Brown turned to the officer.
The evidence as to whether Brown went running or before mortally wounded, McCulloch back to Wilson charged conflict. There have been several reports about how or whether Brown raised hands. His body fell about 153 meters from the vehicle Wilson.
Thousands of people gathered? Essentially peaceful? in other US cities on Monday evening, and President Barack Obama called for peace and understanding and asked both protesters and the police to exercise restraint.
"We are a nation on the rule of law, so we have to accept that this decision was the grand jury to do," Obama said. He said it was understandable that some Americans are angry, but repeated Brown parents was to ask the peaceful demonstrations.
About 10 flights to St. Louis on Monday because of concerns about vaccines that were canceled or rerouted in the sky, created a Lambert-St. Louis International Airport spokesman, but limitations expired at 3:30
The Justice Department is conducting an independent investigation into possible civil rights violations, which may result in federal charges, but the researchers have to take a great deal of evidence to mount a prosecution. The Managing Authority also has an extensive police investigation Ferguson, seeking forms of discrimination.
Whatever the outcome of these investigations, the Brown family could sue for murder against Wilson.
Filming August increase tensions in the predominantly black suburb, which is patrolled by a police largely white. When Brown body an angry crowd was spending hours in the middle of a residential street, gathered. Riots and looting took place the following night, and the police responded with tear gas and armored vehicles.
Protests continued for weeks? often silent, but sometimes violent, with demonstrators throwing stones and Molotov cocktails and the police firing smoke grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon briefly as the National Guard.
Ron Johnson, Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Ferguson, who headed security for events in the summer, said the Community must take some responsibility for the looting that took place on Monday night. There were about 25 fire at night and burned 10 cars at a dealership, said Assistant Fire Chief Steve Ferguson fair local media. Pizzeria, beauty supply store and two auto parts stores were among those burned.
"These are dreams," Johnson said. "These are the small business owners, and we pulled away those dreams."
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Link to basics of the jury: http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/-documents/ferguson-shooting/ .
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Associated Press writers Alan shear Zagier in Clayton, Andale Gross and Jim Suhr Ferguson and Catherine Lucey in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report. Follow David A. Lieb: https://twitter.com/DavidALieb .
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