'Too Much Anger' As Ferguson Ignites Again

If the people of Ferguson, Missouri, thought they had seen the back of the police SWAT teams on their streets, they were wrong.

Heavily armed officers in armoured vehicles rolled back on to the streets of this St Louis suburb on Saturday night.

They were called up to deal with a hard core of 150 protestors who defied a curfew imposed by the state's governor. When shots were fired, the SWAT teams moved in.

And, with their return, the promise of a more light touch police approach to the tinderbox of Ferguson appeared to fade.

The curfew was observed impeccably by most of those who have been protesting for a week now at the killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown last Saturday.

Up to 200 people confronted police after defying the curfew

As midnight ticked by, the crowd thinned, watched by lines of police officers in riot gear protecting businesses from any more looting.

Thunder, lightening and torrential downpours helped some on their way, no doubt, but the calm urging of community and church leaders was persuasive to many.

Instead of the usual "No justice, no peace", those who remained chanted "No justice, no curfew".

The danger now is that some will see the police response to those who remained as heavy-handed.

While the police fired smoke and tear gas, there were no rubber bullets this time. The only injury reported to be a man shot by another protester.

Locals say those who defied the curfew are people from outside Ferguson who have hijacked the legitimate protests.

The crowd ran after police fired smoke bombs and then tear gas

Increasingly the peaceful night of protests on Thursday looks like a false dawn. There is too much anger in community, too much resentment of law enforcement and too many questions so far unanswered.

As the Governor of Missouri announced the curfew and state of emergency, FBI agents were flooding the neighbourhood where Mike Brown died.

The extra agents have been drafted in to speed up an investigation which is critical to how this crisis now plays out.

But frustration among locals is such that even Capt Ron Johnson, the local Highway Patrol chief credited with restoring calm to Ferguson, is now facing criticism.

Mike Brown's family will be joined by civil rights leaders Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King Jnr at a rally in Ferguson on Sunday - as the world watches and wonders what next for a suburb in turmoil.

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