BERKELEY, California: Angry crowds hurled objects at police who responded with tear gas in a second night of clashes in northern California following a grand jury decision not to indict a white New York police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man.

Police in Berkeley, California, fired tear gas after being targeted by what they called explosives. They moved in to clear roadways as protesters swarmed freeway overpasses at two locations in the city, a Reuters reporter saw.

Berkeley police on Monday morning said they made five arrests among the demonstrators. Well over 500 people demonstrated and a number of stores in Berkeley were looted. One protester who tried to prevent the looting was assaulted, police said.

Reuters could not immediately obtain further information from police, who some demonstrators said on Twitter had fired rubber bullets.

Protesters have demonstrated daily in several US cities since a grand jury’s decision on Wednesday not to bring criminal charges against the white police officer whose chokehold contributed to Eric Garner’s death in New York City in July.