Black Lives Matter protesters shut down the Mall of America on Wednesday afternoon after a judge ruled that the mall couldn’t ban their protest.
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Protests by the Black Lives Matter group have taken place in the U.S. states of Minnesota and California on one of the busiest retail days of the year. (The suspects in that shooting are now in custody.) But the Black Lives Matter activists are not easily deterred from their work, organizing a protest at the Mall of America for December 23.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The Mall of America was used as “a decoy” to start a protest that quickly moved to Minneapolis-St. This year, the demonstration was more personal, as Clark’s death is a hometown tragedy. “Now!” Protesters peacefully went to a nearby light-rail train station that allowed quick access to the airport a few miles away.
Airport spokesman Patrick Hogan says two checkpoints in a secondary terminal reopened after protesters were dispersed. “If I think about an unemployment rate in the African-American community three times the white unemployment rate, that’s disruptive”.
Police said a total of 15 people were arrested at both sites, mostly for trespassing or obstruction of justice.
The privately owned mall said another demonstration would mean lost sales.
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport police are out in full force to ensure smooth Christmas Eve travel a day after a mass protest led to disruptions.
Gov. Mark Dayton said Wednesday afternoon that the moving protest created a “very, very risky situation”. They also want to ramp up the pressure on investigators to release video of the shooting.
Before protesters gathered at the mall, stores temporarily closed their gates, kiosks were covered and even Santa left his sleigh.
Police and mall security staff were speedily deployed against the protesters, warning that any who did not depart immediately would be arrested.
That didn’t deter Art Seratoff, a 67-year-old protester from Minneapolis.
Neither the mall nor Bloomington police have said how they will respond to the demonstration.
“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. “Now!” The crowd then headed to the light-rail station and onto the airport.
Just before last Christmas, more than 1,500 Black Lives Matter protesters shut down part of the same mall as they demonstrated against grand jury decisions not to charge police officers in the killings in Ferguson and NY.
Separately, another eight people were arrested in a small demonstration in San Francisco, reports said, on what the activist group branded “Black Xmas”.
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The retail center in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington has an amusement park and more than 500 shops spread across four floors. Mall security guards have also cordoned off parts of a central mall rotunda.
