Black Lives matter is planning to protest against a police killing in North Minneapolis via the logical outlet of protesting at the Mall of America. In Bloomington.
The Mall’s management, remembering the chaos during BLM’s protest the Saturday before Christmas last year, has obtained a restraining order against the protest.
BLM, naturally, is having none of it. Walter Hudson:
Black Lives Matter has responded with typical victim posturing, claiming that the restraining order would violate their constitutional right to free speech. This proves particularly rich given that the group has deleted comments on their Facebook page and blocked this author from commenting. Apparently, their loose interpretation of free speech only applies to their own.
It’s worth noting that when he dismissed previous charges against BLM protest organizers, Hennepin County Chief Judge Peter Cahill signaled that a restraining order such as the one currently sought was necessary to secure the mall’s property rights.
Of course, property rights are on an equal plane with speech rights (or are when courts and legislation haven’t perverted both outside their original intents). BLM seems to have trouble distinguishing between public and private property.
Perhaps staging a counterprotest on Nekima Levy-Pounds’ lawn would get the point across.
I’ve got a funny feeling that there will be some kind of incident during that mob invasion. They are going to deny the wrong person their “constitutional rights” to move about freely in a public place, by blocking their path or otherwise getting in their way, then that person pushes back.
They’ll have their cameras on the whole time and their slimeball leftwing lawyers ready. Some people are just a black stain on society.
“Perhaps staging a counterprotest on Nekima Levy-Pounds’ lawn would get the point across.”
Well, do it before her home is foreclosed on. Apparently a lefty college employee can’t make home payments using her 6 figure salary.
Thread-jack warning: the court ruled “Black Lives Matter” is not a legal entity like a corporation, it’s a loose collection of individuals, so “Black Lives Matter” cannot be enjoined, only three named individuals known to be leaders are enjoined.
That ruling makes the injunction valid in legal terms but worthless in practical terms because nothing stops those loosely affiliated individuals from showing up to protest.
Similarly, Islamic terror” is not an entity or a nation so it cannot be defeated, only individual leaders can be killed, and that doesn’t stop loosely affiliated individuals from showing up at the company Christmas party and shooting everyone.
We need to adjust our thinking about what constitutes “war” or “protest.” The old way of thinking is plainly obsolete.
BLM seems to have trouble distinguishing between public and private property.
The pissant pedantics on the left will say “well, since MoA received taxpayer subsidies while being built, that makes it public property.”
Perhaps staging a counterprotest on Nekima Levy-Pounds’ lawn would get the point across.
An idea ENTIRELY with merit and worthy of further consideration. Every non-black who hypothetically attends will have to bring rain gear and galoshes for the inevitable “RACISTS!” firehose.
Well, do it before her home is foreclosed on. Apparently a lefty college employee can’t make home payments using her 6 figure salary.
$5 says it’s not “can’t”, it’s “won’t”. Queen of entitlement.
Well, do it before her home is foreclosed on. Apparently a lefty college employee can’t make home payments using her 6 figure salary.
And if it goes so far that it is foreclosed and she is evicted, she’ll have a BLM protest in her front yard to protest the racist systemic oppression committed by the incredibly unfortunate Sheriff’s deputy that will be tasked with removing her from the premises.
It is 3:00 Wednesday and I wonder if Peter Cahill is second-guessing his Solomonic decision?
Here’s a biased but accurate on the scene report. I went to the MOA, which I generally avoid during Christmas in order to thumb my nose at BLM and buy a nice electronic toy for myself. Got there at 1:30 and strolled. Large but discreet police and Mall security presence. Many signs, including a huge one in the Rotunda warning people that demonstrating would get them in trouble. I hung out there for awhile. A few white women had Black Lives matter T shirts, but otherwise the crowd didn’t stand out. A lot, like me, were gawkers. So the pictures of the rotunda show the whole bunch of us. Nobody spoke on bullhorns. Nobody chanted. I guess they pulled a few banners eventually and put duct tape(?) over their mouths. Some idiots had brought their kids, so in the event of a stampede they would have gotten hurt. The cops weren’t letting people walk through Nickolodeon Universe and eventually cordoned off the Rotunda. By then I had gotten bored and left to shop. I got a text from a friend that by then some protestors had moved down to the transit center. I guess that’s when they went after the airport. But it was not plan B. It was desperate leaders (?) improvising. The news coverage is going to make this seem a lot worse than it was. It was so tame. When I was in street protests in Minneapolis in the 1970s there was a lot more physical danger. Thankfully, I eventually grew up. BLM doesn’t have a charismatic leader, just some mealy mouthed nobodies with an issue that nobody cares about. A career criminal gets killed trying to grab a cop’s gun. Meanwhile, blacks are shot dead all the time by other blacks and nobody cares about that either. Which is sad.
I need to post a slight correction. I got there at 12:30. My bad