The protest set for Wednesday at the nation’s largest mall is aimed at drawing attention to the police shooting last month of a black Minneapolis man, Jamar Clark.
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Judge Karen Janish approved the request on Tuesday banning the three organizers from showing up to a protest planned for Wednesday.
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Organizers for Black Lives Matter say the demonstration scheduled for 1 p.m. on Wednesday will go on as planned.
“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.
The privately held retail center, one of North America’s largest shopping malls, had asked Janisch to prohibit the group, its alleged leaders and others from protesting and require it to delete social media posts advertising the demonstration.
She did, however, cite existing precedent that the Mall of America is private property and that the mall may exercise its “rights of possession and control over their private property to exclude from their private property political demonstrators”.
Misdemeanor charges were filed, and later dismissed, against 11 protest organizers involved in last year’s demonstration.
Defendant Noor had told Minnesota Public Radio, “Us not showing up and us not speaking would be the mall winning, yet again, as corporations and police departments and the institutions collude to silence us, that’s not going to happen”. He died the next day after being taken off of life support.
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A similar demonstration last December drew hundreds of demonstrators angry over the absence of charges following the police killings of unarmed black men in New York City and Ferguson, Missouri. Dozens of people were arrested. They want to press authorities to release video of the shooting that remains undisclosed. Police have said he was shot during a struggle, but some say Clark was handcuffed. She repeatedly stressed that the mall’s opposition to Black Lives Matter was not about its message, but about the group’s chosen venue and the potential for disrupting last-minute holiday shopping.
