“Black Xmas is here and there will be no business as usual until we get accountability for our dead, and justice for the living”, the activist group said in a statement. He called the timing of the protest “unfortunate”.
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“We raised the bar”, said Pastor Danny Givens of Above Every Name Church in St. Paul after protesting outside Terminal 1.
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Black Lives Matter Minneapolis said on its Facebook (NasdaqGS: FB – news) page that at least 10 people were arrested during the course of the day and appealed for donations to pay their bail.
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Allen says the group needs to keep demonstrating at “economic pressure points”.
Arrests have been made at Minneapolis-St. Protests then moved to the MSP International airport.
In a press release, Black Lives Matter Minneapolis said the protest was against “unmitigated state sanctioned violence against Black people and communities of color”. Hogan said some flights may be delayed for passengers stuck in security lines.
Protesters marched with fists raised in the mall’s hallways, but “participants” were soon told to leave or be arrested. Paul International airport Lightrail stop, December 23, 2015 in Minneapolis. “This order, in particular, sends that message very directly”, Susan Gaertner, an attorney for the Mall of America told Al Jazeera.
Television footage showed protesters chanting, “Shut it down!”
The protest, just two days before Christmas, comes with the United States embroiled in an acrimonious national debate about racism and the use of deadly force by police, particularly in their relations with black men or youths.
Law enforcement on the ground level tranport area at the Mall of America. Justice! When do we want it?
Most of the demonstrators walked outside to a nearby light rail station where they rallied to slogans like “What do we want?”
“The Court does not have a sufficient basis to issue an injunction as to Black Lives Matters or to unidentified persons who may be acting as its agents or in active concert with the Black Lives Matters movement”, she wrote.
Among them were a Starbucks and a Barnes and Noble bookstore. “Now!” Police urged onlookers out of the mall’s central rotunda, threatening arrest.
Bloomington police and mall officials declined to comment on Wednesday.
Black Lives Matter called for Wednesday’s demonstration to protest the November 15 fatal shooting of Jamar Clark, 24, by Minneapolis police officers. Security staff searched visitors’ bags and handed out cards letting visitors know the mall would be checking bags and other items at all entrances as part of ongoing security procedures. Security guards cordoned off parts of the central rotunda, and officers from several cities patrolled inside.
Gov. Mark Dayton said the moving protest created a “very, very unsafe situation”.
The mall had sought a court order blocking the planned protest.
“They talk about this demonstration as being disruptive”, Seratoff said.
Officials said that traffic at the airport was back to normal by Wednesday evening and that about 80 stores at the mall were closed for about an hour as officers escorted protesters off the property.
Last year’s protests had an estimated 3,000 attendees, but this year’s protest over the shooting of a convicted criminal named Jamar Clark failed to bring out anywhere near that number.
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The mall went on lockdown, police ushered everyone out and protesters headed to the Minneapolis-St. A judge barred three organizers from attending the demonstration but said she doesn’t have the power to prevent others from showing up to demonstrate. Stores in the mall had to close, and dozens of people were arrested.
