Police have the streets of the Ohio city under control - for now.
But the burial of one more black victim could spark a chain reaction. The ghetto has not looked like this, they say, since the days after Martin Luther King was assassinated. The only movement is that of the State Troopers' grey patrol cars and white armoured vans full of helmeted riot police, more Blade Runner than a busy metropolis on the shores of the wide Ohio. The streets had emptied on Friday night as an 8pm curfew fell across the last golden sunlight. Downtown, only the birds chirped and signs flapped as the last office workers hurried for their cars loaded up with take-out food.