first is to explain what happened the second is to justify what happened. in tierms of explaining what happe happensed, they re going to say this was an accident. it was simply negligence, which is carelessness. we see the illusion of that because he was talking about that she was distraught. that backs up sort of, she s distraught, not paying attention. if it s an accident, that misdemeanor because speaking in english that s six months jail, vehicular manslaughter, which is a misdemeanor versus intentional murder. if you explain it, which they could do, that s what you re looking at. whether that fly was a jury is another matter. the the second way to go about it, don, is to justify it. obviously this is not justifiable. but when you go to someone s mental state. if her mental state is such that she didn t appreciate the consequences she was catatonic, that gets you into insanity and sla gets you out of criminality.
a way not to do it. saying thou shalt not come here is stupid. i think it was ill-advised. they have a lawyer who said, let s try to keep them out. not only do they focus the nation s attention on it, now we make mall of america who could have been a positive influence in this occurrence look like the bad guy that s they didn t have to. this is an event, a protest. a conversation that has to occur. they could have said yes instead of no. i wonder if this you said that the mall is now the public square in many ways. does this set some sort of precedent when it comes to how we can gather and protest? well, i think it should. it certainly is a compromise. this is not well settled law. there s no way that that mall is private property. but it s private property that they invite everybody to for the hours they invite them to it. why is black lives matter, don, much different from the salvation army when they are
sidner. sara, beefed-up police presence there, including state troopers. right. we ve seen this before. the reason why black lives matter chooses venues like this because they do not want to be ignored. they won t be ignored if they do it in the largest mall in america. you know the deal. they want the attention. they re saying, we won t protest and we ll stop our protesting if you do two things. one, release any videos they have of the shooting of gentleman march clark, the 24-year-old killed in november, and, two, that they appoint a special prosecutor in this case instead of going to a grand jury. those are the two commands. until they are met, the black lives matter movement is going to continue to protest in many wrays. this is a big one because we re all talking about it, and that is the point. the concern was with this particular ruling it was confusing because some people were allowed in. butt bulk of the none strairts, but some of the black lives matter leaders, organizers
so these are a few of the protesters blocking traffic forming a human chain at the airport. again, the day before christmas eve this a very busy travel day. there was the issue remember with the mall of america, a judge had a ruling where some of the black lives matter protesters, at least the leaders of the movement, some of them could not come into the mall but did not stop the entire protest. mark o mara is our legal analyst here on cnn. mark, you said by the judge doing this and the mall making this an issue, it would bring more attention, more attention than these proactivitesters tho they could garner. now we have this. that s exactly what happened, don. they tried to quell the voices of people who should be heard. again, i m not just saying that black lives matter so we have sto give them peshl deference. this is simply free speech and the right to assemble.
happening at the minneapolis airport right now. it was supposed to be at the mall of america but now it s at the airport, jeezy. your reaction to this moment and this movement. i mean, i think if it only took 20 people to get the tae attention of cnn and the rest of the world, i think they re off to a great start. i definitely support the black lives matter movement. i definitely think the mall could have handled it a lot differently. now you ve got this. it s going to continue to grow as it should. we have to raise awareness. it s the holidays and they re still pushing this movement. you have to respect that. i do have to say, i have to give you your due because sometimes hip-hop and rap, the industry, get a lot of criticism because of things people deem superfluous that they talk about