Storm clouds rolling in from Florissant, MO @reedtimmerTVN pic.twitter.com/DL77RYrZWC — Toni Barrett (@Toni_Barrett) August 21, 2014

I’m way behind @aterkel, but here is my crazy cloud photo: pic.twitter.com/WDaqXQ03iK — Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 21, 2014

Scattered march of more than 100 people circling in a lightning storm. This is not safe. If you can see lightning, it can hit you. — Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) August 21, 2014

Earlier, that calm was interrupted about 8:20 p.m. Central time when a woman walked West Florissant Avenue waving a sign that read, “I support Darren Wilson” and shouting, “Y’all need to get your facts straight.”

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Washington Post reporter DeNeen Brown said someone hit the woman over the head and another grabbed the sign. Police rushed to the scene. And officers put her in a police vehicle and drove away.

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“That sign was meant to provoke us. I asked the police why are you letting her protest causing problems over here?” said Tenisha Wheeler, 30, who lives in St. Louis City. She added, “I wouldn’t dare go to a rally supporting Wilson with my own self.”

Amber Howland, 30, who traveled from Alton, Ill., also saw the incident.

“The police walked her past,” she said. “I said I’m white I can get through the crowd. I was going to hit this b—-. They pushed me away. And ran and put her in a truck.”

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As the rain grew thicker Wednesday night, many protesters hid under a tent before joining the crowd again.

A few dozen demonstrators marched chanting, “No justice, no peace.”

“The goal is to keep everything calm,” Ivy said. “It’s about justice, it’s about coming together and unity.”

Then about 10:30 p.m. the crowd revved up once again — echoing the up-and-down mood now typical of the evening protests in Ferguson.

And everybody clumps to a spot and there’s more shouting and IMPORTANT POLICE RADIO NOISES and running photographers and now we’re marching. — Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) August 21, 2014