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Arrests made as protest blocks roads to Minneapolis airport
The privately-owned property is the nation’s largest mall and it was the scene of a protest with hundreds of Black Lives Matter activists Wednesday. According to CBS L.A., those involved in the protest were moved onto the right shoulder of the freeway, and tow trucks were called to remove their cars. Paul International Airport Wednesday afternoon after they were forced out of the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, by a wall of officers.
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A statement released by Black Lives Matters alluded to traffic disruptions “across the country” and called for a “halt on Christmas as usual in memorial of all of the loved ones we have lost”.
Some protesters then went to a nearby light-rail train station to head to the airport, where demonstrators temporarily blocked access to a terminal. Demonstrators blocked roads and caused significant traffic delays. Meanwhile, California Highway Patrol said it arrested nine female protesters blocking southbound traffic on the 101 freeway near the San Francisco International Airport on Wednesday.
Two security checkpoints closed for about 45 minutes, causing flight delays but no cancellations, airport spokesman Patrick Hogan said.
Dozens of stores had closed their gates shortly before the protest started. She warned that the order, which did not extend to the group itself or unnamed people, “should not be interpreted as authorizing or permitting others to engage in political demonstration at the Mall of America without the express permission of the Mall of America”. Mall security guards have also cordoned off parts of a central mall rotunda. Three organizers were banned from attending, but the judge said she doesn’t have the power to prevent others from showing up.
The protest happened after a judge issued a restraining order barring three organizers of the protest from taking part in the rally.
The protests were aimed at drawing attention to the police shooting last month of Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old black Minneapolis man. Clark died one day after he was shot by officers responding to a complaint of an assault.
They didn’t get the “thousands” that activists were promising, and authorities moved swiftly to clear the complex after a judge granted mall owners an injunction against several of the activists and ruled that the private facility had the right to keep protesters out.
“They painted names, words and slogans including “Black Lives Matter” on the surface of all five lanes of pavement”, Peterson said.
Local activists also brought hundreds to a demonstration at the mall last December during the fallout over decisions not to charge any officers in the police killings of unarmed black men in New York City and Ferguson, Mo.
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Neither mall officials nor Bloomington police said what security measures were put in place to prepare for the protest, though special event staff searched bags at every mall entrance before the rally. “Just barring three of us does not mean that you’ve stopped our work”. “That’s the only way that they’ll hear us”.