Ferguson Demonstrations Expand to Black Friday Retailers

National Guard troopers and police officers keep vigil in front of a Wal-Mart in Ferguson, Missouri, on November 27, 2014.

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Demonstrators protesting a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the killing of an unarmed black teenager attempted to disrupt holiday shopping from New York to San Francisco.

Some of the Black Friday protests led to faceoffs with police in Manhattan’s Herald Square and suburban St. Louis, where demonstrators at the Galleria lay down on the floor in a “die-in,” temporarily forcing the mall to close. In Oakland, California, demonstrators shut down some Bay Area Rapid Transit service, the agency said on its website.