REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, NEW YORK -- A fifth day of demonstrations over police use of excessive force with minorities was set for New York on Sunday after 13 arrests in a night of violent protests in Berkeley, California, where stores were looted and tear gas fired, and in Seattle.

Clashes on the West Coast contrasted with relatively calm demonstrations on a rain-soaked Saturday in New York, after mourners held a funeral for an unarmed black man shot dead by a white policeofficer in the stairwell of a Brooklyn apartment house.

Sunday was expected to see protests again in New York as well as Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami and Minneapolis and dozens of other citieIn Berkeley on Saturday night, one man smashed a grocery store 

Windos with a skateboard as others proceeded to loot the store, video. Irom KTVU-TV showed. At least two other businesses were looted, said 

Officer Jennifer Coats of the Berkeley Police Department. Police were pelted by missiles from a splinter group of protesters and fired tear gas, Coats said. One officer hit by a sandbag ffered a dislocated shoulder, she said.

Several police vehicles were damaged, she told Reuters on Sunday. The disturbance forced the closure of the local Bay Area Rapid Transit station. Six people were arrested, Coats said.

In Seattle, protesters threw rocks and attacked police who blocked them from marching onto State Route 99, resulting in seven arrests for assault and other charges, said Seattle Detective Patrick Michaud. The shooting of Akai Gurley, 28, at a Brooklyn public housing project 

Last month was the latest in a series of incidents fueling outrage over what protesters say is a pattern of excessive force being used by law enforcement officers against African-Americans.

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