The Mall of America is desperate not to let Black Lives Matter ruin its final days of shopping in the frantic consumerist run-up to Christmas, as the activist group did previous year.
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Those protests were in response to the previous summer’s fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner’s chokehold death in Staten Island, New York.
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The protesters want to demonstrate at the country’s biggest mall to draw attention to the November 15 police killing of a black Minneapolis man, Jamar Clark, and to ramp up the pressure on investigators to release video of the shooting. Some who saw the incident claim Clark was handcuffed when shot.
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Susan Gaertner, an outside attorney for the mall, told the St. Paul Pioneer Press last week that the shopping center is private property and “as such, has a right to prohibit protests”. Authorities have refused to release the video while the shooting is under investigation.
The Mall [of] America continues to seek to bar free speech for the community on its premises despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies, which it has used to appropriate the traditional public forum in service of its own corporate profit.
The restraining order mandates that protest organizers would be required to delete all plans of the demonstration from social media as well as send out notices that the event is canceled.
In asking for a restraining order, attorneys for MOA point to a similar protest held on December 20, 2014 involving approximately 1,000 protesters inside the mall.
Organizers have no plans to halt the demonstration unless their demands are met.
Black Lives Matter Minneapolis said the letter was delivered to the homes of four leaders by courier on Friday. “The Mall of America has now taken the further outrageous and totalitarian step of attempting to control the speech of individuals”.
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The Mall of America is seeking a temporary restraining order that would bar the group from protesting. In addition, they want federal terrorism charges to be brought against four men who shot at protesters outside a Minneapolis police precinct last month, injuring five.
