There will be no curfew in Ferguson, Missouri Monday night, as troops of the state's National Guard start deploying to help local authorities maintain peace and order in the St. Louis suburb.

Gov. Jay Nixon decided to drop the curfew that had been effect since Saturday night, as he announced the National Guard would assume "limited responsibilities" in assisting the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

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"With these additional resources in place, the Missouri State Highway Patrol and local law enforcement will continue to respond appropriately to incidents of lawlessness and violence, and protect the civil rights of all peaceful citizens to make their voices heard," Nixon said in a statement.

At the White House Monday afternoon, President Obama announced that Attorney General Eric Holder will be travelling to Ferguson on Wednesday to meet with local leaders, and consult with FBI and Department of Justice officials who are conducting an independent investigation into the death of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown on August 9^th.

Obama clarified that the use of the National Guard is a state decision and not a federal one. The president he had requested Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to make sure that the National Guard "is used in a limited and appropriate way.''

"I'll be watching over the next several days to see whether in fact it's helping rather hindering'' progress, the president said.

In response to the National Guard deployment, a representative of the Nation of Islam said his group would ask protesters to go home early Monday night, citing "the militarized police force" and the National Guard as reasons to do so.

"We are going to tell them that this is a different day now with the National Guard in," said Akbar Muhammad, international representative of the Nation of Islam. Muhammad also said that the group is looking for a venue to hold a youth rally, "like a town hall meeting" for local youths.

Ferguson, a predominantly black city of 21,000 on the outskirts of St. Louis, has been in turmoil since August 9^th, when a Ferguson police officer shot and killed Brown. Autopsy later revealed Brown sustained sixe gunshot wounds, two of them in the head.

It took the Ferguson police chief days before revealing the identity of the officer - Darren Wilson, 28, who has not been seen in public since that fateful day.

On the autopsy report, Benjamin Crump. Lawyer for the Brown family, said, ""It verifies the worst that the family thinks happened - that he was executed. It confirms what the witnesses said, that this was an execution."

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