Black Lives Matter Protest At Airport And Mall Of America; 4 Arrested

Dayton says protesters’ call for the release of video footage of the Clark altercation has to wait, so it doesn’t jeopardize the integrity of investigation that he says everyone wants.

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton told reporters Wednesday that he plans separate meetings with Black Lives Matter and NAACP officials next week as he prepares proposals to help erase economic disparities between white and black Minnesotans.

A large protest that started at the Mall of America quickly migrated Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015, to Minneapolis-St. It was not immediately clear whether Clark had been formally arrested. The Terminal 2 checkpoints have been temporarily shuttered to “prevent protesters from gaining access to secure area”.

It’s possible that there could be some flight delays to accommodate passengers stuck in security lines when they reopen. Paul International Airport, where demonst… They started at the shopping mecca in suburban Bloomington, where there was a heavy police presence, then took a light-rail train to the airport.

Traffic cameras for the state highway department show traffic at a virtual standstill leading to and from the state’s main airport. Law enforcement at the Mall of America transit area.

The Minnesota mall, often described as the biggest shopping center in the US, had tried but failed to get a court order to bar the protesters – a move activists said only strengthened their resolve to disrupt shopping on one of the biggest days in the year for retailers. The protest was organized by Black Lives Matter activists.

Protests have been held nationwide for more than a year after a series of incidents, some of them fatal.

“There will be no business as usual until we get accountability for our dead, and justice for the living”, the group said. “Now!” The crowd then headed to the light-rail station and onto the airport.

That didn’t deter Art Seratoff, a 67-year-old protester from Minneapolis.

Police reports show that five men and three women were arrested in protests that briefly shut down a terminal at Minneapolis-St. 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.

A judge ruled Tuesday that several local Black Lives Matter organizers cannot demonstrate at the Mall of America on the busy shopping day before Christmas Eve, but she said she couldn’t stop others from attending the protest.

Hundreds gathered on Wednesday at a mall of Minneapolis to protest the police shooting of Jamar Clark last month. The unarmed 24-year-old was fatally shot by a Minneapolis police officer following a domestic dispute with his girlfriend this year.

The San Francisco Chronicle separately reported that eight protesters blocking southbound traffic on the 101 freeway near the California city’s global airport were arrested on Wednesday.

Kandace Montgomery, one of three organizers barred by Judge Karen Janisch’s order, said the group wasn’t deterred by the ban.

A similar demonstration drew hundreds of protesters to the mall last December and forced some stores to close.

Protesters were met inside the mall by police and security guards.