Posted on 01/06/2015 8:27:23 AM PST by TurboZamboni
Supporters of a large demonstration at the Mall of America last month are urging the City of Bloomington not to pursue charges for disrupting retailers and shoppers.
Several people at the Bloomington City Council meeting Monday night asked prosecutors to reconsider. More than two dozen people were arrested after the Dec. 20 demonstration organized by the group "Black Lives Matter."
It was part of a nationwide wave of protests following incidents in Missouri and New York in which unarmed black men were killed by police.
City Attorney Sandra Johnson says she plans to file charges against protest organizers for unlawful assembly or aiding a public nuisance. She also plans to seek restitution for additional security costs incurred by the mall.
(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...
If they back down, and they will, it will send a clear message that nobody is willing to fight these thugs, and it will encourage them even more.
“City Attorney Sandra Johnson says she plans to file charges against protest organizers for unlawful assembly or aiding a public nuisance. She also plans to seek restitution for additional security costs incurred by the mall.”
Good.
Of course they are, they don’t want to be prosecuted.
Blacks should be allowed to commit crimes without consequence.
So... who shoulders the cost of the disruption of business?
I think that’s absolutely what they’re going for.
A different set of laws for the “protected class” than for everyone else.
Got a mirror?
Taxpayers, of course.
Some leftard on the radio was arguing this morning that if the prosecutor prosecutes, she needs to prosectute ALL 3,000 or it’s ‘not fair’ or something to that extent.
I wonder how that arguement works when he tells the trooper he needs to ticket everyone else also speeding around him when he gets pulled over.
If they back down, they become the protesters' jailhouse bit**es...
Black Criminals Matter Protest ?
All lives matter except the aborted black ones.Those don’t matter to the leftists.
If they back down, and they will, it will send a clear message that nobody is willing to fight these thugs, and it will encourage them even more.
Do it. MAXIMUM sentence. Send a message:
You do this anywhere else and we will arrest and prosecute you and drive you fully into bankruptcy, drive your homeless women and children - stripped naked - to the farthest edges of the county/city/state the hounds of war nipping at their heels, pursued by maddening crowds hurling rocks, sticks and epithets while you chill in the deepest, darkest, dankest cells available crowded twelve deep fed with crusts of moldy bread and water alone, a solitary bucket for a toilet.
Do NOT let these miscreants off without the most severe repercussions or they will be back in the spring, in greater numbers, emboldened to do their worst - fire, rape, assaults on our elders [yeah, they’re already doing that, but it’ll be WORSE] without limit.
PUT A LID ON IT or “We The People” will be forced to act. It worked out really well the last time.
“Black Lives Matter”
Apparently much more for the promoters and backers of these demonstrations than for the people who are LIVING those black lives.
Black on black crime would be MUCH worse without that “thin blue line” stretched between the criminal class and the much larger decent citizen class in predominately black neighborhoods.
Lives matter, not because they may be of only one specific ethnic group, but because they are lives. It does matter, however, if the lives are being spent well, or with limited regard for the lives of others.
The right for others to swing their arms freely ends when it connects with somebody else’s nose. When that happens, expect some response, as the rules are now radically changed.
“City Attorney Sandra Johnson says she plans to file charges against protest organizers for unlawful assembly or aiding a public nuisance. She also plans to seek restitution for additional security costs incurred by the mall.”........
Finally someone with a backbone and a woman to boot. Good for her!!!!!
Throw the book at them.
The comments at the end of the article are illustrative of the illogical liberal mind. They really want to do the crime but do not have the conviction that they are right enough to be willing to suffer the consequences.
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