During scuffles in which a police line in South Audley Street was broken through some of the demonstrators turned their banner stakes into spears, which they hurled at the police.
Demonstrators hurled cobblestones at the police before the police pulled back, allowing the demonstrators through.
Just then, a convoy of Humvees arrived and began to push through the crowd, agitating the demonstrators further, witnesses said.
Pitched behind two large armoured trucks, they repeatedly warned the demonstrators through a Tannoy system to "get out of the road or face arrest" – the same warning delivered on Monday night before officers fired teargas, rubber bullets and wooden baton rounds into the crowds.
After an hour or so, a premature rumor that Moshe Silman had died spread through the crowd, and the demonstrators ran out onto the motorway in response, bringing a rush-hour highway to a standstill.
In lines stretching several miles, the demonstrators moved through avenues littered with broken shop stands, burnt cars and burning tires.
As the demonstrators marched through the streets, many held up banners with slogans like "No Protection, No Security" and "No Protection, No Vote".
Once inside, the demonstrators paraded through the hallways of the site, the Royal Cliff Beach Resort, chanting, cheering, blowing whistles and waving Thai flags.
A short while later, the demonstrators moved through downtown, taking over an intersection, setting fires and damaging 20 businesses, officials said.
The demonstrators walked through cold rain as they concluded a march that began Nov. 29 and was organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACPP).
