Police warned the protesters that they would be arrested if they again blocked the road, and the protesters remained on the sidewalks.

Saturday morning, there was an altercation between protesters and customers at the Ferguson Farmers Market. Protesters alleged that at least one marketgoer had struck a marcher. Ferguson police said no one was arrested there.

Thomas Ball, a preacher from Atlanta who had observed the situation in Ferguson from afar, traveled to North County to support and counsel demonstrators. “There’s nothing you can do with this,” he said, gesturing toward protesters sitting in South Florissant Road on Saturday afternoon. “But maybe meaningful talk will come out of it.”

After police left, a small group of demonstrators convened in the parking lot of an auto parts store across from the police station to plan for Tuesday’s Ferguson City Council meeting.

“The more organized we are, the more powerful we can be,” a group leader told the gathering.

Protesters intend to voice concern at the meeting over shortcomings they see in a city plan to establish a Citizen Review Board to monitor police.