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daredtowork

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3. I'm confused

Reply to LiberalElite (Original post)

Fri Dec 26, 2014, 07:26 PM

Dec 2014

Besides the mall being a public space until the store property owners deciding post-facto it isn't, didn't the POLICE decide to shut down the mall? The businesses could have stayed open. Protesters wanted people to view the protest. It was the effort to prevent the public from seeing the protest which caused the loss of business dollars. In theory the spectacle could have attracted business.

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