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 Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri ordered more National Guard troops into the embattled city of Ferguson on Tuesday to keep order on the second night after a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. 
 
 “The violence we saw in areas of Ferguson last night is unacceptable,” the governor said in announcing that the National Guard presence would be upped from 700 troops Monday to 2,200 on Tuesday. 
 
 "Last night, criminals intent on lawlessness and destruction, terrorized this community," Nixon said at an afternoon news conference. "I am deeply saddened for the people of Ferguson who woke up to see parts of their community in ruins. No one should have to live like this, no one deserves this. We must do better and we will." 
 
 On Monday night, 21 fires were set and at least 12 buildings were burned, police reported looting, and gunfire broke out repeatedly, officials said. 
 
 More than 60 people were arrested overnight Monday into Tuesday for protest related crimes in St. Louis County, which includes Ferguson, said St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar. He said 32 arrests were for felony burglary related to looting, and 29 were for misdemeanor "unlawful assembly." Ten police cars, mostly belonging to the county, were damaged, including two which were completely burned, he said. Three officers suffered injuries. 
 
 Belmar also said officers "found a body" that they were treating as a homicide. And while there was no immediate indication it was related to the protests, he said "at this point I certainly couldn't discount it — I would imagine that there’s some sort of a nexus there." 
 
 The civil unrest followed the grand jury’s decision not to charge Officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9. 
 
 At a press conference with local clergy on Tuesday afternoon, Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III said he was disappointed with the delayed use of the National Guard on Monday night. After thanking the police and state troopers who did help protect the city, Knowles said, "unfortunately the national guard was not deployed in enough time to save all of our businesses." 
 
 He added, "The decision not to deploy the National Guard was deeply disturbing." 
 
 Knowles said that he had reached out through "political channels" Monday night to request the Guard be sent in but admitted, "I haven’t spoken to the governor since the third week of August." 
 
 In response to Knowles comments and reports that there was a political agenda at work behind the lack of response, Nixon said, "Politics has not one bit to do with the task at hand, the business at hand and the seriousness of this mission." 
 
 Meanwhile, shopkeepers swept up broken glass, buildings smoldered, and police kept parts of the city closed all day Tuesday. People in Ferguson said they were devastated, and some said they were bracing for more. 
 
 "This won’t change, and I want better," said Richard Taylor, who lives a few blocks from where Brown was killed. "But, no, I don’t think change is coming. I think it will get worse before it gets better." 
 
 Joel Flores, the 65-year-old owner of El Palenque restaurant on S. Florissant, was watching as community members boarded up his restaurant in preparation for Tuesday night. 
 
 "I'm kind of worried because last night was crazy and we don't know what's going to happen tonight," he told NBC News. "I'm Disappointed because I was hoping the police would take care of us but last night they didn't do much." 
 
 As night fell Tuesday, dozens of protesters began to chant across the street from the Ferguson Police headquarters. But some observers wondered if there wasn't a better outlet. 
 
 "I'm inspired that you got people of all ages and people who don't like each other out here with a cause but what I don't like is, how long will it last?" asked Damarko Cheathem, 25, who mentioned the idea raised by some that Ferguson protesters should boycott "Black Friday" sales. 
 
 "If you want to make a change, beat people in their pockets," he said. "When Black Friday happens don't go to the stores. If every minority didn't shop, that would make a change." 
 
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 — Erin McClam, Tracy Jarrett and Hasani Gittens ||||| MINNEAPOLIS (AP/WCCO) — Two Minneapolis rallies to demonstrate against the grand jury’s decision in Ferguson, Missouri, drew several hundred people on Tuesday, with a scary moment when a car struck one protester and then burst through a pack of other protesters when they quickly surrounded it. 
 
 Police said a woman suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital by ambulance. Footage from a news helicopter appeared to show at least one person being driven over as the car left the scene near the city’s 3rd Precinct police station. 
 
 The driver called police soon after to report the incident, and police spokesman Scott Seroka said no one was arrested. 
 
 The rally near the 3rd Precinct and an earlier gathering at the University of Minnesota both drew hundreds of people carrying signs and chanting slogans in an effort to show solidarity with Michael Brown, the black teenager shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson in August. Ferguson erupted in violence Monday night after a grand jury declined to indict the officer. 
 
 On the steps of the university’s Coffman Union, demonstrators sat down for 4 ½ minutes of silence to mark the 4 ½ hours that Brown’s body reportedly lay in the street after he was shot. Some carried signs that read, “Black lives matter” and “No justice, no peace” and speakers called for an end to racial discrimination. 
 
 Nivedita Sriram, 18, a freshman from Darien, Illinois, said the grand jury’s decision showed “systematic injustice.” 
 
 “It’s shown our system is broken,” she said. 
 
 One of the rally’s organizers, Black Student Union president Michael Ampaabeng, addressed the crowd through a bullhorn: “We believe the family of Michael Brown deserves due process and their day in court.” 
 
 Later, protesters marched across campus, chanting: “What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now” and “If we don’t get it — shut it down.” 
 
 Just after 7 p.m., Minneapolis Police stopped another driver after he drove his van through protesters who appeared to be blocking his vehicle. 
 
 Other rallies were planned in St. Paul and Duluth. 
 
 (TM and © Copyright 2014 CBS Radio Inc. and its relevant subsidiaries. CBS RADIO and EYE Logo TM and Copyright 2014 CBS Broadcasting Inc. Used under license. All Rights Reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.) ||||| Here’s a summary of overnight protests around the country from the Associated Press: 
 
 People protesting the Ferguson, Missouri, grand jury decision took to the streets in cities across the U.S. for a second day Tuesday, showing that the racially charged case has inflamed tensions thousands of miles from the predominantly black St. Louis suburb. 
 
 For many, the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson recalled other troubling encounters with law enforcement. The refrain “hands up, don’t shoot” became a rallying cry over police killings nationwide. 
 
 A look at some of Tuesday’s demonstrations: 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
 Thousands of people marched for a second night in Manhattan, gathering in Union Square before splitting into several smaller groups, chanting “No justice, No peace.” Some held signs saying “Jail killer cops” and “Justice for Mike Brown.” 
 
 One group marched uptown to Times Square, meandering between lanes of traffic as police followed. The protesters, who seemed to grow in number as the night wore on, disrupted traffic on the FDR Drive and congregated at the entrances to the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges and the Queens Midtown Tunnel. 
 
 Commissioner William Bratton said police were giving protesters “breathing room.” 
 
 “As long as they remain nonviolent, and as long as they don’t engage in issues that cause fear or create vandalism, we will work with them to allow them to demonstrate,” he said. 
 
 CALIFORNIA 
 
 Protesters flooded the U.S. 101 freeway Tuesday night, carrying barricades that they laid across lanes and bringing traffic to a halt. 
 
 Within a few minutes Highway Patrol and LAPD officers chased the few dozen protesters off the freeway and corralled them on an overpass, where one of the barricades was thrown on to the freeway below. There were no immediate reports of any arrests. 
 
 The protesters had broken away from a larger, primarily peaceful group of hundreds who had marched for miles through city streets since mid-afternoon, converging on police headquarters. 
 
 In Oakland, a group of protesters is vandalizing police cars and businesses in downtown Oakland, smashing windows at car dealerships, restaurants, and convenience stores on a second night of protests. 
 
 The crowd briefly shut down two major freeways, and set several trash bins on fire across a major street before police in riot helmets forced them to disperse. 
 
 MINNEAPOLIS 
 
 A rally in Minneapolis turned scary when a car struck a protester and then burst through a pack of others who surrounded it. A woman suffered minor injuries. Several hundred people had gathered Tuesday afternoon near the 3rd Precinct police outpost to show solidarity with Brown. The driver called police soon after to report the incident, and police spokesman John Elder said the incident was under investigation. 
 
 CLEVELAND 
 
 Several hundred people marched down a freeway ramp to block rush-hour traffic while protesting the Missouri developments and Saturday’s fatal shooting by an officer of 12-year-old Tamir Rice of Cleveland, who had a pellet gun that looked like a real firearm. 
 
 “The system wasn’t made to protect us,” said one of the protesters, 17-year-old Naesha Pierce. “To get justice, the people themselves have to be justice.” 
 
 ST. LOUIS 
 
 Protesters disrupted downtown traffic for several hours by blocking major intersections, an interstate highway and a Mississippi River bridge connecting the city to Illinois. 
 
 Riot police arrested several demonstrators who sat in the middle of Interstate 44 near the Edward Jones Dome. They used pepper spray to disperse the crowd. 
 
 Demonstrators also swarmed the steps of the federal courthouse chanting, “You didn’t indict! We shall fight!” 
 
 ELSEWHERE 
 
 Several hundred people from historically black schools Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University in Georgia held peaceful demonstrations. But as the night wore on, some groups split off and tried to block a freeway, and police said some windows were broken. 
 
 Police said 21 people were arrested, mostly for failure to disperse when asked, but one person faces a weapons charge. 
 
 In Portland, Oregon, a rally drew about 1,000 people who listened to speeches then marched through downtown. A splinter group of about 300 people kept going, marching across a Willamette River bridge. Bus and light rail traffic was disrupted, and police used pepper spray and made several arrests. ||||| FILE- In this Dec. 3, 2014 file photo, Pastor Henry Currie of Mary B. Wise Baptist Church collects himself during services for Tamir Rice, in Willoughby, Ohio. Rice, 12, was shot and killed by a Cleveland... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2014, file photo, protesters carry signs criticizing the police, and replicas of coffins during a march over the Brooklyn Bridge to protest a grand jury's decision not to indict... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE- In this Nov. 25, 2014 file photo, demonstrator Maryam Said raises her painted hands during a protest against a grand jury's decision on Monday not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE- In this July 23, 2014 file photo, mourners gather during a funeral service for Eric Garner at Bethel Baptist Church in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A grand jury ruled not to indict the police... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE- In this Nov. 25, 2014 photo, a man spray-paints protest graffiti in Oakland, Calif., a day after the announcement that a grand jury had decided not to indict Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2014 file photo the casket containing the body of Michael Brown is surrounded people gathered to say goodbye as it leaves Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis.... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE- In this Dec. 5, 2014, file photo, mourners surround the casket of 28-year-old Akai Gurley during his wake at Brown Memorial Baptist Church in New York. A New York City Police officer shot Gurley... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE- In this Dec. 3, 2014 file photo, people participate in a protest in response to the grand jury's decision in the Eric Garner case in Times Square in New York. A grand jury cleared the white New... (Associated Press) 
 
 In each place, individuals — all unarmed except for a child carrying a pellet gun — died at the hands of police officers. All of the dead were black. The officers involved, white. 
 
 To many Americans, it feels like a national tidal wave. And yet, no firm statistics can say whether this spate of officer-involved deaths is a growing trend or simply a series of coincidences generating a deafening buzz in news reports and social media. 
 
 "We have a huge scandal in that we don't have an accurate count of the number of people who die in police custody," says Samuel Walker, emeritus professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a leading scholar on policing and civil liberties. "That's outrageous." 
 
 There are some raw numbers, but they're of limited value. 
 
 The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, for instance, track justifiable police homicides — there were 1,688 between 2010 and 2013 — but the statistics rely on voluntary reporting by local law enforcement agencies and are incomplete. Circumstances of the deaths, and other information such as age and race, also aren't required. 
 
 The Wall Street Journal, detailing its own examination of officer-involved deaths at 105 of the nation's 110 largest police departments, reported last week that federal data failed to include or mislabeled hundreds of fatal police encounters. 
 
 Put simply: It's hard to know for certain what is happening on the ground. 
 
 "We want a comprehensive picture ... so people can be aware of what really goes on, and not the claptrap put out by people with agendas," says David Klinger, a professor of criminology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis who has studied use of deadly force and hopes to get funding for a pilot project that could provide better national statistics. 
 
 To those who have taken to the streets to protest in recent weeks, that lack of context is almost beside the point. 
 
 "These are communities that have been living for generations under the yoke of what has felt like an occupying force," says Phillip Atiba Goff, co-founder of UCLA's Center for Policing Equity. "And regardless of what any of the stats are ever going to say, if we don't address the reality of that experience, then we're shooting ourselves in the foot in our attempts to make good on our promise of democratic principles." 
 
 The high-profile cases have erupted one after the other. 
 
 On July 17, 43-year-old Eric Garner died after officers tried to arrest him on suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes on a New York City street. Cellphone video captured the scene as one officer wrapped his arm around Garner's neck, and the black man repeatedly pleaded, "I can't breathe." 
 
 Tensions escalated on Aug. 9, when Officer Darren Wilson fatally shot unarmed, 18-year-old Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. 
 
 On Nov. 22, a Cleveland officer shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice after responding to reports of an armed man at a city park. Rice had been holding a pellet gun. 
 
 Two days later, officials announced that a grand jury had declined to return an indictment in the Brown case. Fires from the resulting protests in Ferguson had barely stopped smoldering when word came there would be no charges against the officer in New York City. Again, angry protesters marched. 
 
 Then a grand jury in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, returned a murder indictment Wednesday against a former small-town police chief in the May 2011 shooting death of an unarmed black man. 
 
 Richard Combs, who was the sole officer for the town of Eutawville, had been charged with official misconduct for shooting Bernard Bailey, who had come to the town hall to argue about a ticket his daughter had received. Combs' attorney questioned prosecutor David Pascoe's motives in seeking the murder charge. 
 
 "He's trying to make it racial, because his timing is perfect," John O'Leary said. "He's got all the national issues going on, so they want to drag him (Combs) in and say, 'Look what a great community we are here, because we're going to put a police officer who was doing his job in jail for 30 years.' That's wrong." 
 
 Walker, co-author of the book "The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America," says much of the anger out there comes from years of conflict between the black community and law enforcement. 
 
 "Within the African-American community, there has been an experience of disrespect, offensive language, mistreatment in terms of stops and so on," he says. "And there's a sense that the police are out to get them." 
 
 It's not just the killings that have minority communities "fed up," says Inimai Chettiar of the New York University law school's Brennan Center for Justice. 
 
 "African-American communities are tired of being over-policed, over-prosecuted, sent to prison, having men taken away from their communities, having families broken," says Chettiar, director of the center's Justice Program. "I think there's much more than just an instinctual sense that there is something amiss in these communities. I think people are tired of 'tough on crime.'" 
 
 Whether such incidents are on the rise, says Walker, "we're certainly more aware. And, certainly, the digital revolution has had a huge impact." 
 
 Goff compares it to the ice bucket challenge phenomenon of this past summer — in which a series of viral videos raised millions of dollars for research into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's Disease. 
 
 "Once something is trending, so that it's in the American consciousness, people become aware of it," he says. "The reason we're hearing about this is because we're hearing about it. It has its own momentum." 
 
 Goff has begun work on creating a policing database, with funding from the Department of Justice, the National Science Foundation and private groups. He says it would include not just deaths but all police stops and uses of force. 
 
 "Is it getting better? Is it getting worse? What are the actual numbers?" asks Goff. "You know, when a plane crashes, it feels all of a sudden like it's not safe to fly. But if you look at the statistics, it's way safer to fly — and always has been — than to drive a car." 
 
 The Department of Justice is investigating possible federal civil rights violations in the Ferguson case and has opened an investigation into Garner's death in New York. On Thursday, the agency reached an agreement to reform the Cleveland Police Department after concluding that officers there use excessive and unnecessary force far too often — an investigation prompted in part by the deaths of the two black occupants of a car involved in a high-speed chase. In that case, 13 officers fired 137 shots at the unarmed suspects. 
 
 Chettiar is hopeful that recent events will create the "political and public will" to begin gathering and analyzing the facts. 
 
 "In addition to personal stories," she says, "statistics help people change their minds." 
 
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 AP writers David Crary in New York and Meg Kinnard in Orangeburg, South Carolina, contributed to this story.
– More than a dozen buildings were set ablaze in Ferguson on Monday. Among those that burned: Flood Christian Church. NBC News reports that's the church where Michael Brown's father was baptized on Sunday. The buildings around it were untouched, leading the Rev. Carlton Lee to speculate that it wasn't rioters who torched his church but white supremacists looking to target him for his support of the Brown family (he's been by their side during press conferences and says he's received 71 death threats) and his vocal calls that Officer Darren Wilson be arrested. KMOV reports the church's windows were broken and chairs were overturned. "We rebuild," says Lee. "We do not stop." More: Protesters outraged by the grand jury decision in the Michael Brown case took to the streets of cities across America for a second night last night after a day that saw dozens of rallies. One of the largest protests was in New York City, where thousands of people chanting slogans including "Black lives matter!" brought traffic in Manhattan and other parts of the city to a halt, reports the New York Daily News. There were also large protests in cities including Oakland, Calif., Portland, Ore., and Los Angeles, where protesters stopped traffic on the US 110 Freeway and police made dozens of arrests, mostly for disorderly conduct, reports the LA Times. In Ferguson itself, where police were supported by thousands of National Guard troops, the night was a lot calmer than Monday night, reports the AP, although police still used tear gas to disperse protesters, a squad car was torched, and at least 44 people were arrested, mostly for failure to disperse.