Protest and attempt of citizen's arrest of Karl Rove at Univ. of MN, and Mall of America

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Protest and attempt of citizen's arrest of Karl Rove at Univ. of MN, and Mall of America

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Posted on YouTube: April 23, 2010
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I for one will boycott Mall of America for the hate of Free Speech and love of Criminal karl Rove

Karl Rove visits Minneapolis on April 22nd showing up at both a speech/book signing at the U of M and a later book signing at the Mall of America. Despite all the cops following him around throughout the day, Rove was not arrested or detained.

http://twincities.indymedia.org/2010/apr/karl-rove-visits-u-m-and-mall-america

Under heavy security, war criminal Karl Rove made his way to the Twin Cities area on April 22nd to sell his new book ironically named “Courage and Consequences”. But how courageous are you when you have a large group of private security and tax-payer funded police around you at all times? Rove was obviously afraid to face the consequences of his war crimes during the Bush era. At the University of Minnesota, there were at least 8 uniformed UMPD officers in the room and likely a few undercover or plainclothes security. There was somewhere around 140 people in the room - and not all of them supporters. On a campus with over 50,000 students., this was a small showing for a “big-name” speaker.

While the first part of Rove’s speech went along without much disruption or incident, some who arrived late also reported being not let in at the U of M event as they “closed” the doors officially a few minutes before the event. There were a few key disruptions during the U of M speech including a small group chanting - “Who is a terrorist? Rove is a Terrorist” and were promptly escorted out.

At the book signing immediately following afterwards, one person reported they served him with the arrest complaint with no incident. Another individual was arrested and cited with “obstructing the legal process”. Coleen Rowley, a well-known peace activist and whistleblower, asked if Rove would consider a challenge to a debate and was called a “lunatic”. The author of this article was personally kicked out three times from the U of M event – once for yelling war criminal and twice for trying to get into the book signing line - and finally threatened with arrest if the police “saw her again”.

At the Mall of America, the biggest “win” was that no one showed up to get their book signed. Many times during the hour or so we were there – the cops/security outnumbered the protesters and fans. In fact, some of us those who had books weren’t fans but were using them as props to get in line – sometimes more than once – only to get kicked out or told that he wasn’t signing your book again. It didn’t help when head of Mall of America security was standing next to you most of the time.

The corporate media failed to show how tight the security was for these events. The Mall of America security repeatedly monitored everything that we did and said and had numerous back-up from the Bloomington P.D. and a few K-9 bomb-sniffing dogs. The security gave repeated warnings to stop “giving speeches” and eventually Coleen Rowley was kicked out after a curious onlooker yelled “war criminal” near her. At this same time, Karl Rove appeared very busy signing a pile of books that no one appeared to want to purchase. True, Karl Rove was not arrested in Minneapolis but with the security state on his side, the only people who got arrested would be those who dared to call him out.