Police will enforce a curfew in Ferguson, Mo. for a second night, according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Missouri Highway Patrol spokesman Al Nothum said that police would provide further details in a press conference later on Sunday.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) on Saturday imposed a curfew in Ferguson from 12 a.m. to 5 a.m. Sunday.
Despite the curfew, a small group of protesters remained outside early Sunday morning. Seven people were arrested, and one person was shot by an unknown gunman.
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waiting for the sense of futility to come back… Then the cover up and whitewashing can get into full swing.
Let resolve and the demand for justice stay strong in Ferguson… These people, this community, is fighting for all of us… support our defenders.
I’ve been trying for days to find a “listicle” or some such thing of adult curfews in the US unrelated to natural disasters. There are plenty of youth curfews around the country, but adult curfews outside of natural disasters seem to occur only in large urban areas populated in predominantly black communities. This is one of the main reasons this won’t work. Show me where a curfew has ever been placed on a predominantly white community in this country in the last century or more? Anyone?
This is all I’ve come up with:
http://www.citymayors.com/society/usa-youth-curfews.html
http://law.jrank.org/pages/5925/Curfew-Adult-Curfews-Strict-Scrutiny.html
Adult curfews are antagonistic by their very nature. Even some youth curfews have come into question over the years as having any sizable effect on reducing crime as most crimes are committed by adults by and large.
I might add, even fucking Wikipedia doesn’t have an entry on Adult Curfews in the United States…Juvenile Curfews yes under the topic “Curfews”, but Adult curfews…uh, no such luck. They do exist, they have occurred, they are a part of natural disasters and the history of race-based policing in this country…but no entry. I find that odd.
I completely agree. The curfew is insulting and the wrong way to treat this community.
Everyone remembers the curfew that took place in LA following the beating of Rodney King 23 years ago. This is an institutionalized approach to subduing the black community when they become outraged over issues concerning justice and equal rights. It doesn’t occur in any other communities from what I can see…though Occupy Wall Street did get Bloomberg’s dander up as he instituted police action in kicking people out on the street from a public park; still there was no curfew as I recall…or was there?