FERGUSON, United States, Nov. 24 -- Violence erupted Monday night in Ferguson after the announcement that police officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted for the shooting unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Two police cars were lit on fire and gunshots rang throughout the night as police shot tear gas and fired rubber bullets at protesters.

Chaos reigned in the streets with shop windows smashed, and what sounded like live ammunition and tear gas rounds, which cooked off and exploded inside the burning police cars.

Riot police tried twice to secure the site of the two burning police cars but failed to eliminate all stragglers.

Police did detain two men, one white, one black, both wearing masks, telling them they were under arrest for arson.

Police were seen interrupting media interviews around the site, pushing and shoving journalists that did not move fast enough to escape their lines.

Protesters in front of the police station were angry but generally peaceful, and there were no mass displays of violence, but there were incidents where protesters threw bottle rockets at police and media.

Peaceful protester Sista Souldeep said: "Here we have another injustice that takes place and we have no justice. Half of us in the city have received injustices we have been beaten, like myself, we have been racial profiled in this city, in Missouri. Missouri has been a racist state forever."

Michael, another peaceful protester, told Xinhua "that verdict wasn't fair... he was unarmed."

The protests are expected to continue throughout the week and protesters have a scheduled protest in a white neighborhood for Tuesday at 7 a.m..