| Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri declared a state of emergency in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson on Saturday afternoon and ordered a curfew after a week of unrest following the fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager by a local police officer. |
| The governor’s action came hours after hundreds of demonstrators engaged in a standoff with the police early Saturday that was punctuated by threats and a new round of denunciations of law enforcement practices. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/us/ferguson-missouri-protests.html?emc=edit_na_20140816 |
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