A curfew has been announced for a second night in Ferguson in the US state of Missouri, where police shot dead a black teenager last weekend.
It will be in force from midnight (05:00 GMT) to 05:00 (10:00 GMT).
More protests were seen on Sunday, with clashes between police and crowds as night fell.
US Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered a federal post-mortem on the body of Michael Brown, 18, to take place "as soon as possible".
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has criticised police for releasing CCTV footage which apparently shows Michael Brown stealing some hours before he was shot.
He said the release of the footage "appeared to cast aspersions" on the dead man, who was not stopped by police on suspicion of robbery when he was shot.
"It made emotions raw," Mr Nixon told US broadcaster ABC on Sunday.
Governor Jay Nixon: Release of CCTV footage "had an incendiary effect"
The killing of Mr Brown by a white policeman in a street on 9 August has inflamed racial tensions in the largely black suburb.
Seven arrests were made on Saturday night as police used smoke bombs and tear gas to disperse a crowd of about 150 in Ferguson, after being called to the scene of a disturbance at a restaurant after the curfew started.
Mr Brown's family condemned the release of CCTV footage by local police
A police car reportedly came under fire and a person was hurt in an apparently unrelated shooting in the same area.
As police were nearing the restaurant, a man with a handgun went into the street but ran away, AP news agency reports.
Someone also shot at a police car but it was not clear if it had been hit.
Demonstrators complained that the curfew would make matters worse.
Autopsy moves
The US justice department is investigating the shooting of Mr Brown, with 40 FBI agents dispatched to Ferguson to gather information.
The justice department said on Sunday that Mr Holder had ordered a federal post-mortem examination at the request of Mr Brown's family, in addition to a Missouri state autopsy.
Tensions remain high on the streets of Ferguson
Many protesters want to stay on the streets
"Hands up, Don't Shoot" has become a key slogan in the protests
Michael Brown had recently graduated from high school. His family said their son was not "perfect"
A preliminary autopsy by the St Louis County Medical Examiner's office on the day after Mr Brown's death found he had been shot, police said, without disclosing how many times.
Earlier, the lawyer for the dead teenager's family, Anthony Gray, announced that it had hired one of America's most famous forensic pathologists, Michael Baden, to conduct an independent examination.
Mr Baden, 80, has worked on investigations into the deaths of such public figures as President John F Kennedy, the punk star Sid Vicious and the family of the last Russian emperor, Tsar Nicholas II, according to a profile on Fox News, where he works as a TV host.
Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson revealed on Friday that the officer who shot Mr Brown was Darren Wilson, a six-year police veteran with no previous complaints against him.
Mr Wilson has been on paid administrative leave since the shooting.
The policeman had reportedly stopped the teenager for walking in the street, disrupting traffic.
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