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Many of these protesters have decided a great way to protest is to go to malls and shopping centers so they can have a “die in.” The “die in” is just their way of screwing up the lives of real Americans who want to do their Christmas shopping.
Unfortunately many cities and many shopping malls have simply decided to tolerate the disruption, lest they offend the mob and the mob starts rioting.
One jurisdiction has decided differently. Perhaps the most amazing part of the story is where this is happening.
From WCCO:
In the next few days, the Bloomington City Attorney Sandra Johnson expects to file criminal charges against the organizers of Saturday’s protest at Mall of America.Good for this prosecutor! It is about time someone stood up to these thugs.
The mall went into a partial shutdown for about two hours as thousands of protesters filled the rotunda on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. The group, “Black Lives Matter” chose the mall for its high visibility, but was warned repeatedly that it was private property.
Mall officials are reportedly gathering estimates of how much money the stores lost on Saturday.
Combined with the amount of overtime put in by police, Johnson said the numbers will be “staggering,” and she wants the protest organizers to pay.
The moment the chanting started Saturday, officers locked down about 80 stores and several mall entrances. In and around the rotunda, business came to a halt for about two hours.
Nate Bash works at one store near the rotunda, which he didn’t want us to name.
“You had people yelling and screaming inside the mall that wanted out and you had people yelling and screaming outside the mall that wanted in,” he said. “I would say the mall was less than half as busy as it should have been considering what day it was.”
“This was a powder keg just waiting for a match,” said Johnson.
The City Attorney is now building criminal cases against the protest organizers. She said she’ll try to get restitution for money lost by the mall, the city and police agencies that came from as far away as Hastings and Red Wing.
“The main perpetrators are those who continued on their Facebook site to invite people illegally to the Mall of America,” she said.
Compare that to the not so bright police chief in Nashville who refused to arrest “protesters” who shut down one of the cities Interstate highways and offered the “protesters” hot chocolate. When the protesters decided to disrupt one of the larger malls and shopping areas, he kindly blocked the roads so the “protesters” could have their temper tantrums. In his idiotic mind, the rights of the protesters trump the rights of real Americans who simply want to go on about their lives.
But good for Minnesota.
This is an example that should be followed in other jurisdictions. A lot of good things could come from this, including saving police lives.
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