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"After days of unrest following the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson, residents of Ferguson, Missouri were placed under a state-imposed curfew on Sunday, which has since been lifted. \nMissouri Gov. Jay Nixon issued the nightly curfew \u2014 which was in effect from midnight to 5 a.m., local time \u2014 starting early Sunday. Initially, it was unclear as to how many days the curfew would be imposed, but Nixon later announced on Monday afternoon that the curfew would be lifted. \nSee also: Ferguson: At Least 2 People Shot, 31 Arrested During Chaotic Night of Protests\nOver the weekend, there were seven arrests and one injury. Protesters have continued to clash with police in riot gear, facing rounds of tear gas and smoke projectiles. \nImposed curfews in times of civil unrest are nothing new in the U.S. Here are five other instances throughout history:\n1. Japanese-Americans on the West Coast - 1942\n\nA Japanese boy looks on, as his family gets evacuated in 1942.Image: Flickr, C. Thomas AndersonThe Japanese army's attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, is date that will live in infamy. Not only did it cause the U.S. to enter World War II, it also sparked a major struggle for Japanese people living in America at the time. \nTwo months after the Pearl Harbor attack, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt enforced harsh rules on Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast. He imposed a curfew that forbade anyone of Japanese descent to leave their home after 8 p.m., according to the The New York Times. There was also a forced internment, in which the U.S. government removed more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans from their homes, and placed them in isolated inland camps. \nOnly three people, including Seattle resident and University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi, openly defied the curfew and internment. \n2. Los Angeles Riots - 1992\n\nPolice offers stand in the street during the LA riots. Image: Flickr, Dark SevierIn 1991, a black man named Rodney King was brutally beaten by four white police officers in California, after King lead the officers on a high-speed chase through Los Angeles County, according to CNN. The beating was caught on camera, and the four officers were brought to trial for assault. In 1992, all four were acquitted.\nThe acquittals escalated racial tensions in Los Angeles, leading to riots in the city. L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on April 30, 1992, sending in thousands of soldiers, Marines and National Guard troops to control the violence, which included fires, looting and gang violence, according to the Los Angeles Times. Around 63 people died, and more than 2,000 injured by the time the curfew was lifted on May 4. \n3. WTO Protest - 1999\n\nPolice deploy pepper spray on protestors in Seattle, Image: Flickr, Steve KaiserSeattle was the center of major protests in late 1999, when a global meeting of the World Trade Organization was scheduled to take place in the city. Protestors flocked in from all over the U.S., demonstrating peacefully against corporations. However, there was a small group of protestors who smashed windows, prompting the police to respond by firing tear gas at them, according to the Washington Post. Police made 20 arrests, and the conference's opening ceremony was canceled.\nSeattle Mayor Paul Schell immediately imposed a 7 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. curfew, and declared a civil emergency.\n4. Hurricane Katrina - 2005 \n\nAn aerial shot of a flooded New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005. Image: Flickr, Kelly GarbatoNew Orleans residents endured one of the worst natural disasters in recent American history when Hurricane Katrina swept through the city in late August 2005. Around 1,833 people were killed, mostly in Louisiana, but also across Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi, according to CNN. The hurricane also caused approximately $108 billion in damages. \nOther problems soon arose when some accused the U.S. government of not acting swiftly enough to help New Orleans' residents. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other groups accused the government of being too slow in providing aid to those affected \u2014 mostly poor, black people.\nNew Orleans later imposed a curfew to help maintain order in the city.\n5. Occupy Protests - 2011\n\nProtesters march with signs on March 15, 2012.Image: Flickr, Michael FleshmanThe Occupy Wall Street movement sparked many similar protests across the country and around the world. Curfews were imposed in multiple cities, including Denver, Colorado and Nashville, Tennessee, the latter in which 29 people were arrested for protesting past the curfew, The New York Times reported. Over in Portland, Oregon, about 30 people were arrested after ignoring a midnight curfew.\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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