Sunday 17 August 2014 16.03 One person has been shot and critically wounded at a restaurant in Ferguson, Missouri, as protesters stayed on the streets after a midnight curfew.
Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson said the person was not shot by police and that the shooter was still at large.
Protesters are angry over the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, 28, in the suburban St Louis community on 9 August.
Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and announced the five-hour curfew after a week of racially charged protests and looting.
Seven people were arrested for failing to disperse after the curfew took effect.
Law enforcement officials had used loudspeakers to warn protesters to disperse immediately.
Officers, equipped with gas masks and full-length shields, stood among and on top of armoured vehicles.
Captain Johnson said canisters of smoke and later tear gas were fired as part of police attempts to reach the victim of the restaurant shooting, "and not in relation to the curfew".
He also said someone had shot at a passing police car but was not apprehended.
"I was disappointed in the actions of tonight," noting "the crowds we've had for the last two nights (were) citizens obeying, protesting," he said.
The smoke and tear gas canisters largely dispersed the crowd, some of whom had been chanting "No justice, no curfew, no peace".
Others implored the crowd not to move forward towards police.
Yesterday afternoon, Governor Nixon and other officials came face-to-face with angry members of the community during a tense news conference at a church near Ferguson.
"The eyes of the world are watching. This is the test of whether a community, this community, any community, can break the cycle of fear, distrust and violence, and replace them with peace, strength and, ultimately, justice," the Governor told the gathering.
St Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCullough yesterday told a local public radio station he plans to have a grand jury begin to look at evidence in the shooting of Mr Brown within days.
Mr Brown's family and supporters have demanded for days that the officer who shot Mr Brown be held accountable.
The US Department of Justice is investigating the shooting for any civil rights violations, and the St Louis County Police department also has launched a probe.
The police version of Mr Brown's shooting differs markedly from witness accounts, including that of the friend who was walking with Mr Brown at the time, Dorian Johnson.
In the police version, after Officer Wilson asked Mr Brown to move out of the road onto a footpath, Mr Brown reached into the patrol car and struggled with Officer Wilson for the officer's service gun.
The police officer, who sustained a facial injury, then shot Mr Brown a number of times.
Mr Johnson and at least one other witness have said the officer reached out through his car window to grab at Mr Brown and the teenager was trying to get away from the officer when he was shot.
Mr Brown held up his hands in a sign of surrender but the officer got out of his patrol car and shot Mr Brown several times, they said.
Reverend Al Sharpton has said he would lead a rally with Mr Brown's family in Ferguson today.
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