Neither mall officials nor Bloomington police said what security measures were put in place to prepare, though special event staff searched bags at every mall entrance before the rally.
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Eventually the protestors moved to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Here, protesters get off a light rail train at the airport’s Terminal 2.
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Minneapolis airport officials acknowledged the protest on social media and warned of “significant traffic backups”.
A similar protest was held last December by the Black Lives Matter movement at the same mall to protest the absence of charges following the police killing of unarmed black men in the cities of NY and Ferguson, Missouri.
A reporter for the Minneapolis StarTribune noted that officers escorted out the cousin of Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old African-American man who died last month after Minneapolis police shot him on the scene of an assault.
Protestors blocked a road in Baltimore, where a judge recently declared a mistrial in Baltimore police Officer Wiliam G. Porter’s trial against all charges related to the death of Freddie Gray.
Some legal experts, however, believe even her restraining order on the three organizers may have gone too far – handing down an injunction against a vaguely defined potential act of advocacy. Protests have led to arrests. “Black Xmas is here and there will be no business as usual until we get accountability for our dead, and justice for the living”, read a statement on the Black Lives Matter website. A judge on Tuesday barred three organizers from attending the demonstration, but said she didn’t have the power to block unidentified protesters from showing up.
At that point, the demonstration moved outside to a light rail station – and, finally, to Minneapolis-St. Mall security guards have also cordoned off parts of a central mall rotunda. Airport spokesman Patrick Hogan said police arrested protesters who were disrupting traffic but said no figure on the number of arrests at the airport was immediately available. Video taken from spectators and protesters show an influx of people of many races and backgrounds filling the rotunda, advocating for the release of police footage from the shooting of Jamar Clark.
He said the state sent about 30 troopers to help Bloomington police with the mall protest, which on Wednesday morning he said he hoped would be peaceful. In Lloyd Corp. vs. Tanner, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “there is no open-ended invitation to the public to use the (mall) for any and all purposes, however incompatible with the interests of both the stores and the shoppers whom they serve”.
Around 500 people showed up in the mall, but they did not stay long after running into an advancing blockade of police officers, a reaction which they would have anticipated, given that plans to bring in a contingent of state troopers was made clear well in advance of the action.
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“We are a leader-full organization”, Kandace Montgomery, one of the organizers barred by the judge’s order, told the Associated Press.
