Calm Comes To Troubled Ferguson; Protests Dwindle Across U.S.

FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) — Tensions eased in the St Louis sub­urb of Ferguson on Thursday after two nights of vio­lence and loot­ing sparked by racial­ly charged anger over a grand jury’s deci­sion not to charge a white police offi­cer for fatal­ly shoot­ing an unarmed black teenager.

Protests also dwin­dled else­where in the United States as the Thanksgiving Day hol­i­day and win­try weath­er kept many indoors.
In New York, where pro­test­ers had vowed on social media to dis­rupt the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade through Manhattan, at least sev­en peo­ple were arrest­ed dur­ing the event, police said​.In California, about 500 peo­ple were arrest­ed in ral­lies on Tuesday and Wednesday that shut high­ways in major cities.About 90 of those pro­test­ers who were still in jail in Los Angeles on Thursday were ordered released by the city’s police chief in time for Thanksgiving din­ner, a police spokesman said, as long as they promised to appear in court.The order did not apply to any­one with an out­stand­ing war­rant, nor to one pro­test­er who was arrest­ed on Wednesday night for assault with a dead­ly weapon, the spokesman said.
Ferguson became the focal point of a nation­al debate on race rela­tions after offi­cer Darren Wilson shot dead Michael Brown on Aug. 9. The U.S. Justice Department is prob­ing pos­si­ble civ­il rights abus­es, and President Barack Obama has called for reflec­tion on the dif­fi­cul­ties minori­ties face in the coun­try. http://​news​.yahoo​.com/​m​o​r​e​-​4​0​0​-​a​r​r​e​s​t​e​d​-​f​e​r​g​u​s​o​n​-​p​r​o​t​e​s​t​s​-​s​p​r​e​a​d​-​o​t​h​e​r​-​u​-​0​0​2​1​4​9​0​4​8​.​h​tml