The second day of protests over the grand jury’s decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson grew violent in Ferguson, Mo., when night fell on Tuesday. For the second evening in a row, protesters set a police car on fire and threw various objects at cops. Protesters swarmed the street in front of the Ferguson Police Department and made it difficult for traffic to pass through.

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Law enforcement officials wasted little time pushing back against the mob, which had also hurled flaming objects at cops. Police moved in and cuffed some of the offending protesters.

But law enforcement’s efforts still proved incapable of preventing violence in Ferguson overnight. The protesters smashed windows and set a police car on fire again late on Tuesday. The vandalism in Missouri coincided with protests taking place across the country in 37 states. Whether other protests are characterized by the violence on display in Ferguson remains to be seen, but the protesters who gathered outside the police station last night did not appear prepared to demonstrate peacefully.