On the one year anniversary of Darren Wilson killing unarmed teenager Michael Brown, the city of Ferguson has declared a state of emergency, transferring control police operations to the county level after a demonstration against police brutality was marred by gunfire.
The City of Baltimore is currently convulsing in civil unrest as people upset about the violent death of Freddie Gray by police have turned to rioting.
The Governor of Missouri, Democrat Jay Nixon, has instituted a state of emergency for the entire state over fears that Darren Wilson, the officer accused of killing Mike Brown in August, will not be indicted on murder charges by a grand jury.
The 400,000 residents of the city of Toledo, Ohio have been told not to consume or bathe with the water that comes out of the city's taps.
To deal with the continued spread of the Ebola virus, the government of Sierra Leone has declared a state of emergency and called up its security forces to enforce quarantines on the areas where the disease has already been found.
