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Weston White
12-23-2014, 05:27 AM
Sure, just try getting your city officials to recover your own personal losses when victimized, well as it turns out if you are a business then you just might have a pretty good shot at getting your own taxpayer funded legal team to represent your private affairs. At least one of the organizers makes a valid point—in this case take up the matter with your own police department for it was they who overreacted to our peaceful protest.


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. . . .

Lena K. Gardner of the group “Black Lives Matter” said several groups, including several faith leaders, took part in organizing Saturday’s protest.

Gardner said the financial losses are not the fault of protesters.

“We came to sing carols and raise awareness,” she said, “and the Bloomington police are the ones who shut down the mall, not us.”

Gardner compared it to December of last year, when thousands gathered in the rotunda to sing a song (http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/video/10942413-thousands-gather-to-honor-zach-sobiech/) written by a young man who died of cancer, Zach Sobiech.

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/12/22/bloomington-city-atty-expected-to-file-charges-against-moa-protest-organizers/