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Mall of America seeks to stop Black Lives Matter protest
Associated Press ^ | Dec 21, 2015 12:14 PM EST | Kyle Potter

Posted on 12/21/2015 9:34:31 AM PST by Olog-hai

Black Lives Matter protesters vowed Monday to press on with their plan to demonstrate at the Mall of America on the busy shopping day before Christmas Eve, despite the mall's efforts to stop them.

The mall requested a temporary restraining order barring the group from staging its protest Wednesday over the police killing of a black man last month. It is hoping to prevent the type of disruption that thousands of protesters caused last year, when stores had to temporarily close and dozens of people were arrested. [...]

Those behind this year's planned protest at the Mall of America want the authorities to release video of the death of 24-year-old Jamar Clark, who was shot and killed by Minneapolis police on Nov. 15. ...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; blm; jamarclark; liberalagenda; mallofamerica; stpaul; thugculture
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1 posted on 12/21/2015 9:34:31 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The Mall of America muss be raciss.


2 posted on 12/21/2015 9:36:37 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: Olog-hai

Well what did they think would happen when they built the metro link to the mall?


3 posted on 12/21/2015 9:37:50 AM PST by 11th_VA
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"The Mall America continues to seek to bar free speech for the community on its premises," Black Lives Matter said. "The Mall of America has now taken the further outrageous and totalitarian step of attempting to control the speech of individuals."

Yeah they want to prevent a safety hazard on private property.

4 posted on 12/21/2015 9:38:26 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Olog-hai
Tell them there is a job fair and offer them employment.

That’ll clear the mall.

5 posted on 12/21/2015 9:39:26 AM PST by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: Olog-hai

Stop BLM from mattering!


6 posted on 12/21/2015 9:39:56 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Olog-hai

Question— is a shopping mall private property, so that the owners of the mall can legally block the protest??

Does freedom of speech, assembly , right of protest extend to a place such as a shopping mall because it is open to the public??

Is this protest going to scare off shoppers from the mall, and will they see their business drop off now and in the future, if the perception gets out there that trouble makers go to that mall???


7 posted on 12/21/2015 9:40:15 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Olog-hai

Why do they need a restraining order? Hire armed security and kick their asses out.


8 posted on 12/21/2015 9:42:11 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: 11th_VA

They should have built the mall in International Falls.


9 posted on 12/21/2015 9:43:08 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Olog-hai

Racist blacks have destroyed other shopping malls all over the country with their surly mobs, lawlessness and uncivil behavior.

They drive away paying customers who are fed up with their demands and conduct, business drops, stores close and the malls become ghost towns.

Will the black looters and cop haters join with the uncivilized muslims to bring about the destruction of the Mall Of America too?


10 posted on 12/21/2015 9:47:40 AM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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“Question— is a shopping mall private property, so that the owners of the mall can legally block the protest??”


Yes !

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11 posted on 12/21/2015 9:48:25 AM PST by Mears
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To: Olog-hai

Time to bust out RICO.


12 posted on 12/21/2015 9:49:20 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Menehune56

Lefties fighting Lefties.

Let them protest in the mall and the mall will close within a year from every store closing down.


13 posted on 12/21/2015 9:49:25 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Jews for Cruz)
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To: Olog-hai

BLM demands their 1st. Amendment rights in order to prevent you from exercising your 1st. Amendment rights.


14 posted on 12/21/2015 9:49:27 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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Those low-IQ BLM robots ruined a big shopping day what, last week or so? Gonna try their luck again, it seems. Maybe they’ll do something stupid like mob a store and steal it dry.


15 posted on 12/21/2015 9:49:34 AM PST by W. (Make that rubble BOUNCE!)
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To: JEDI4S
Tell them there is a job fair and offer them employment.


16 posted on 12/21/2015 9:49:41 AM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Shopping malls are private property, though like all private property in America, courts chip away the foundations.

Insisting that malls are public places brings out the Marxist in most people.


17 posted on 12/21/2015 9:50:03 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Iron Munro

Egg axelly


18 posted on 12/21/2015 9:50:47 AM PST by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Is this protest going to scare off shoppers from the mall, and will they see their business drop off now and in the future, if the perception gets out there that trouble makers go to that mall???

The mall owners are terrified of that. All that is needed is one good video. A video going viral online and then on cable news with images of shoppers fleeing, being screamed at by Bowel Laxatives Matter protesters. Or even better, a brawl with mall cops and the protesters. It would be another nail in the coffins of malls across the country.
19 posted on 12/21/2015 9:51:04 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Here’s an admission by some lefties on the status of the MOA:

http://www.citypages.com/news/heres-why-mall-of-america-is-considered-private-property-6566560


20 posted on 12/21/2015 9:52:45 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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