The protests against a grand jury's decision not to indict the Ferguson police officer who fatally shot teen Michael Brown this past this past August continued on Thanksgiving Night, with dozens of protestors taking their movement from the streets to the stores as shoppers officially began their holiday shopping.

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According to Fox News, protest groups took their march against Officer Darren Wilson to Wal-Mart and Target stores in the St. Louis area after they opened their doors for Black Friday sales at 6 p.m. Thanksgiving Night, with a Wal-Mart and Target store in Brentwood, as well as two Wal-Marts in St. Charles and one in Manchester getting targeted.

The protests were largely peaceful, with the protestors spending only a few minutes in each store chanting until they were asked to leave by police officers.

At the Manchester Wal-Mart specifically, around two dozen people chanted "no justice, no peace, no racist police" and "no more Black Friday" after officers warned they risked arrest if they didn't move at least fifty feet from the store's entrance, and then began advancing in unison until the protesters were moved further back into the parking lot.

One protestor, Chenjerai Kumanyika, an assistant professor at Clemson University, told Fox News that the aim of protesting on Black Friday was to not only call attention to the disagreement over the grand jury's decision, but to also highlight other forms of injustice.

"We want to really let the world know that it is no longer business as usual," he said, before adding that "Capitalism is one of the many systems of oppression."

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