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Protest planned at Minnesota mall on busy day
The request is for a temporary restraining order. In Tuesday’s ruling, she was barred from attending today’s protest at the Mall of America.
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The order, which does not extend to the group itself or to unnamed people, “should not be interpreted as authorizing or permitting others to engage in political demonstration at the Mall of America without the express permission of the Mall of America”, Hennepin County Judge Karen Janisch wrote.
Gaertner said Tuesday she was pleased with the ruling.
Dayton says he’s sympathetic to protesters’ concerns, but says the mall is private property. She declined to say if she or her fellow organizers still planned to go to the mall, but she said she expects at least 700 people to show up.
With the judge’s limited ruling, it’s unclear what additional steps the mall may take to curtail the protest.
Bloomington police have not said what security measures the mall may put in place to curtail the protest.
Named defendants Miski Noor, Kandace Montgomery and Michael McDowell were barred from demonstrations, but the group could not be forced to remove social media posts promoting the protest or to add notices saying the protest was canceled, Janisch said.
Black Lives Matter organizers plan to rally at the mall Wednesday to protest the death of Jamar Clark, who was shot by Minneapolis police November 15 and later died. They also want to ramp up the pressure on investigators to release video of the shooting. The shooting is now being investigated by state and federal authorities. But it did not grant a restraining order against the broader organization, Black Lives Matter Minneapolis.
Thousands of demonstrators descended on Mall of America last December, angry over the absence of charges following the police killings of unarmed black men in New York City and Ferguson, Missouri.
During a press interview given at the court by an attorney for Mall of America, other Black Lives Matter protesters “crashed” the interview with their own signs, some of which contained a hashtag the group started to mock the attempt by Mall of America to protect the rights of store owners and customers: #MOASueMeToo.
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Last year’s protest was the last Saturday before Christmas and Wednesday’s is set for the last full shopping day before the holiday.