Missouri Governor Orders Troops to Begin Leaving Ferguson
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Governor Jay Nixon directed the Missouri National Guard to begin leaving a St. Louis suburb where violence has ebbed after more than a week of protests following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer.
Nixon, a 58-year-old Democrat, called in the troops Aug. 18 after organized groups of protesters with firearms and gasoline bombs attacked police, and officers in riot gear unleashed tear gas in the streets. Violence has since subsided, police said.