So I decided to watch the live streams of the protest tonight. Apparently a black communist revolutionary group from Chicago showed up to instigate more protests in violation of the midnight to 5:00 AM curfew. The official media pen was behind the cops, conveniently preventing an accurate view of the action from the protesters' side, and they were threatened with arrest if they tried to leave it (a Something Awful member was in the area and provided us with live updates). However, Vice News had one of their men live streaming from the protesters' side.
It was basically a more subdued version of the first nights. Protesters got within about 50 yards before tear gas was fired (police and CNN claimed that they were smoke grenades, but 37mm CS canisters have been recovered by protesters and bystanders and a city police officer said that he thought it was tear gas as well), and it took 10 or 20 minutes to disperse them. The cops pushed the protesters back and scattered them, but began raiding a nearby strip mall for little apparent reason. One cop was visible aiming an AR-15 at random people with his weapon light on for over 5 minutes, standing on the roof on an armored car. They also busted out the LRAD, which is fucking painful even through my computer speakers.
There have been some arrests. Pearl Gabel said on Twitter that the cops arrested her at gunpoint, only to release her after a few minutes. The co-founder of Twitter has been arrested as well. We also have reports that two protesters were shot, one in the leg and one in the neck. No word on who shot them, but what appear to be .40 S&W casings have been found and photographed by bystanders. I also distinctly heard what was unmistakably semi-auto rifle fire during the first push back.