Black Lives Matter & Mall of America in Loggerheads: One Fights For Causes, Another Secures Property

Black Lives Matter, Minneapolis chapter of the rights organization, has called for a peaceful demonstration on December 23, in front of the Mall of America, for the second year in a row. Thursday’s call of the rights organization that works for ensuring freedom to all black people is believed to be connected with reminding its earlier demonstration at the same venue last year. Literally, organizers of the movement have urged to demonstrate peaceful protest against killing of Jamar Clerk, 24, a black young on November 24 last year, allegedly by Minneapolis Police.

Organizers has urged to hold a rally in front of the Mall of America on Wednesday unless their demands for release of the video covering the shooting incident, appointment of special prosecutor instead of grand jury to investigate in killing and probe last year’s shooting on the protesters, have not been met. But authorities have repeatedly declined to release the video for the sake of proper ongoing investigation, according to a report published in the New York Times.

Thousands of demonstrators have participated in a similar protest on December 20 last year at the large mall that disrupted holiday shopping and prompted the mall authority to shut some stores temporarily. Police has arrested dozens of people from the place of protest, reports Foxnews.

A Hennepin County court has acquitted 11 organizers of the last year’s demonstration dismissing charges of unlawful assembly. But the court has ordered for prosecuting 17 participants charged for obstructions who have denied paying heed to the mall security personnel appealing to evacuate the premises.

On November 15 last year, the entire country has trembled with massive waves of protests centering the death of a black youth. Jamar Clerk, a suspect for North Minneapolis assault, has got bullet hit by two police officers and died on the following day. A video clip that shows handcuffed Clerk while shooting, has sparked violent protests countrywide and turned to bloody since Police officials hasn’t been charged again for the deaths of two protesters, Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Missouri, reports Twincities.

However, the mall is a private property and its policy doesn’t allow protests. Hennepin County Chief Judge Peter Cahill’s order related to ban protests in private properties has been referred by mall attorney Susan Gaertner. Ignoring the righteous cause, the attorney has also vowed to prohibit protest on its property in a bid to ensure safety to its guests.

Black Lives Matter, a rights organization, appears in loggerheads with the Mall of America, while announcing a rally on next Wednesday at the latter’s premises unlike previous year, protesting the gruesome killing of Jamar Clerk, a black youth of 24 years, allegedly due to the shooting of two Minneapolis police officer. Since the mall is private property, so authority of the mall, empowered with related court order, vows to protect its guests even through dispersing the protesters.