A dozen cities across the United States have experienced protests overnight over the decision not to charge a white policeman who killed an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.
Demonstrations in 13 cities around the US, from New York to Seattle, were largely peaceful but rioting broke out in Oakland, California.
There was some unrest in Ferguson itself, with police making 44 arrests, but the suburb of St Louis did not see destruction on the scale of the previous night, the BBC reported.
The officer who killed Michael Brown there says he has a “clean conscience”.
Darren Wilson, who shot the 18-year-old on 9 August, told ABC News that in the struggle which preceded the shooting, he had felt “like a five-year-old holding on to [US wrestler] Hulk Hogan”.
Many in Ferguson's predominantly African-American community had called for the officer to be charged with murder, but the grand jury's decision means the police officer will not face state criminal charges over the shooting.
Lawyers for Brown's family denounced the grand jury's decision, saying they “strongly objected” to the way prosecutor Bob McCullough laid out the case, while condemning the violence that followed.
St Louis County police chief Jon Belmar said last night had been “generally a much better night” in Ferguson, a town of 21,000 people.
Tear gas was fired just once, he said, when rioters smashed windows at the Ferguson town hall. There was only one report of shooting, he added, when a car was set alight.
More than 2000 National Guard soldiers were deployed to assist police in
keeping order in and around Ferguson.