Protesters break windows in San Francisco shops

A group of protesters chant "Black lives matter" outside of a window of the West Oakland Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train station after 14 protesters were arrested after they formed a human chain on a platform to stop trains from moving in Oakland, Calif., Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. AP/The Tribune, Laura A. Oda

OAKLAND, Calif. — Hundreds of protesters are marching through downtown San Francisco streets packed with Black Friday shoppers to protest a grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri.

KGO-TV is reporting some in the crowd are using hammers to smash the windows of stores in the city's touristy Union Square.

KGO-TV reports the crowd marched Friday night through the heart of the city's shopping district and arrived at Union Square, where police stopped them from disrupting the lighting of a Christmas tree in the popular area.

Earlier on Friday, another group of protesters chained themselves to trains in Oakland and temporarily interrupted Bay Area Rapid Transit service from Oakland to San Francisco.

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