Protest over chokehold decision turns violent

Quiet finally fell on a main thoroughfare of Berkeley, Calif., on Sunday after a night of protest turned violent and left several businesses battered and looted.

Protests across the nation over a New York grand jury's decision Wednesday not to charge a white police officer in the chokehold-related death of an unarmed black man were mostly peaceful Saturday night. But in Berkeley, masked protesters smashed windows and threw objects at police, authorities said.

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