In order to quell the disturbances, the police arrested at least three people and locked down the site.
As per information, those activists who entered the City Hall were part of a group of about 200 protesters who marched and held a mock trial of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson who shot dead Michael Brown on the 9th of August.
Reports indicate that a section of the protesters looted and ransacked local business and even set police vehicles and nearby buildings on fire.
Authorities are believed to have arrested 58 people on Tuesday as compared to about 80 on the previous night and there are reports of arrests from other parts of the county as the protestors continued to express their outrage over the decision of the grand jury.
Incidentally, this incident has lot of resemblances with the case of George Zimmerman shooting dead Trayvon Martin in Sanford Florida – that also was a case of a white neighborhood watch volunteer shooting dead a black teenager. Darren Wilson had shot Michael Brown 12 times!!
Incidentally, the reaction of US President Barack Obama was different in the recent case as compared to the Trayvon Martin case – he has said that the nation is built on the rule of law, and people must accept that the decision made by the grand jury.
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