By Dale Anderson, Maki Becker, Mark Sommer
Demonstrators joining in nationwide protests against police brutality occupied Niagara Square late Saturday afternoon and staged a confrontation with armed U.S. marshals and Buffalo police in riot gear at the entrance to the federal courthouse before spreading to other neighborhoods late into the night.
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