Earlier, hundreds of people had gathered at the Minnesota mall, one of the largest in North America, where organizers for Black Lives Matter had promised to assemble despite a judge’s warning that its owners could legally block the protest.
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“The music that we are making these days is actually helping spread that word, the Black Lives Matters movement”, the 38-year old CTE World executive says. Some protesters took a light-rail train to the airport after the mall was closed by police. The Associated Press reports that the rally began in the mall’s rotunda, where protesters chanted the slogan, “What do we want?” Customer traffic was also down Wednesday, they said.
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The mall sought a court order blocking the planned protest.
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Video posted on Twitter showed the demonstrators chanting “if we don t get no justice then they don t get no peace”, as snow fell on the road to the terminals.
The activist group Black Lives Matter was planning demonstrations in six U.S cities on Wednesday, which it was calling “Black Xmas” and a national day of action.
“Activists from Unicorn Riot live streamed the actions and provided overdramatic narration to their viewers, claiming the police were “pushing” protesters-but the videos shows they never were touched”, wrote Lee Stranahan.
Their right to peacefully demonstrate, whether at Rockefeller Center, the United Nations or the Mall of America, should not be restrained.
The protesters left the mall Wednesday afternoon and were walking toward a light-rail train station outside the massive suburban Minneapolis mall.
Several stores in Mall of America are closing ahead of an expected protest organized by Black Lives Matter.
“Getting arrested as protesters is as American as apple pie”, protester Adrian Thompson said.
Gov. Mark Dayton said the moving protest created a “very, very unsafe situation”.
The governor questioned the need for such a demonstration, noting the ongoing federal and state investigations into the death of Jamar Clark, who was shot by Minneapolis police responding to an assault complaint.
Neither mall officials nor Bloomington police said what security measures they put in place to prepare for the protest, though special-event staff members were searching bags and were stationed at every mall entrance.
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“We accomplished exactly what we came here to accomplish – we wanted to shut down the highway, shut down the airport and show solidarity with other Black Lives Matter groups”, said Michelle Barnes of Minneapolis, one of the protest organizers. Mall security guards have also cordoned off parts of a central mall rotunda. Stores in the mall had to close, and dozens of people were arrested. In the 29-page order, Hennepin County Judge Karen Janisch reinforced the mall’s right to remove protesters from its private property.
