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Organizers expect hundreds at Mall of America protest
Judge Janisch ruled that “Defendants Michael McDowell, Miski Noor, and Kandace Montgomery are enjoined from engaging in any demonstration on the MOA Premises on December 23, 2015, or thereafter, without the express, written permission from MOA Management”, but she denied other requests by the mall to keep protesters away.
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Judge Karen Janisch on Tuesday approved the nation’s largest mall’s request for a temporary restraining order barring the protest organizers from showing up there on Wednesday.
What does change is three Black Lives Matter leaders are being told in advance that they’re barred from protesting there Wednesday through a “temporary restraining order”.
The mall wants to avoid the type of disruption caused by a Christmas-time demonstration a year ago, when thousands of protesters angry about the absence of charges involving police killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City forced the temporary closure of mall stores.
Bloomington police have not said what security measures the mall may put in place. Attorney Jordan Kushner, who represented the named defendants, said the mall could remove demonstrators but could not tell them what they may say. She also asserted that the mall is a private commercial retail center that prohibits “all forms of protest, demonstration and public debate”.
Black Lives Matter organizers say they plan to rally at the mall Wednesday to protest the death of Jamar Clark, who was shot by Minneapolis Police in November, and later died. A judge on Tuesday barred three organizers from attending the demonstration but said she doesn’t have the power to prevent others from showing up to demonstrate. About two dozen people were arrested in that protest. Others, though, say Clark was handcuffed at the time. Leaders of the BLM movement have scheduled another such protest at the mall for tomorrow, so the Mall went to court to seek an injunction. Authorities have declined to release video of the shooting while state and federal investigations are underway.
In its court filings, the mall has claimed it will suffer irreversible harm, both economic and reputational, if there’s a large-scale protest on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
Protest organizers are seeking a special prosecutor to be appointed in Clark’s death rather than have a grand jury decide whether to charge the officers involved in his death.
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This story has been altered to correct the spelling of Black Lives Matter, which had been misspelled “Black Lies Matter” in one instance.