Police reports show that five men and three women were arrested in protests that briefly shut down a terminal at Minneapolis-St.
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“It’s been sleepless nights”, Jamar’s cousin, Alexander Clark, told Reuters at the mall demonstration just before police took him into custody, adding: “We are here for justice for my cousin”.
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In a press release, Black Lives Matter Minneapolis said the protest was against “unmitigated state sanctioned violence against Black people and communities of color”.
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Gov. Mark Dayton said the moving protest was creating a “very, very unsafe situation”, and he urged protesters to stop blocking access to part of the airport.
Access to one of two terminals was closed after more than 100 protesters gathered inside and blocked roads leading to the airport Wednesday, airport spokesman Patrick Hogan said.
Just a year ago, they held another protest after the deaths of men in NY and Ferguson.
5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has learned that police arrested the brother of Clark at the Mall of America protest.
“We want a complete overhaul of the justice system both locally and nationally”.
The protesters disrupted light rail service to multiple stations, the Star Tribune reported.
Activists are planning a Black Lives Matter demonstration that they say could bring hundreds of protesters to the Mall of America on the day before Christmas Eve.
“Earlier in the day, scores of protesters assembled inside Minneapolis’ Mall of America, but police in riot gear and mall security officers dispersed the crowd, pushing them outside the shopping center”.
Mall of America officials tried to block the protests, contending the marchers were unlawfully on private property. Three minutes before that event was scheduled to begin in Bloomington, BLM sent a text message directing demonstrators to board Blue Line light-rail trains. In particular the group focused on Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old black man shot and killed by Minneapolis police.
Art Seratoff, a 67-year-old protester from Minneapolis, dismissed the criticism.
Shops began locking up shortly before Wednesday’s afternoon protest was set to begin and security guards searched the bags of people entering the mall, according to images posted on social media.
What is not in dispute is that the Mall of America is not a public space and that it has the right to protect its property rights, business goal and the safety of those who work and visit there.
Kandace Montgomery, one of three organizers barred by the judge’s order, said the group wasn’t deterred.
“Although protests and actions within shopping malls or other spaces have been an issue of legal disputes and requests for injunctions for decades”, she reasoned, the court could not, issue “a broad temporary restraining order enjoining the future acts of unidentified individuals or the public at large”.
A similar demonstration drew hundreds of protesters to the mall last December and forced some stores to close.
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Over a dozen stores at the mall closed ahead of the 1:30 p.m. rally and officials temporarily blocked off entrances to one of the airport’s terminals.
