What Mall Protest?

I only barely stumbled upon this story the other day.(link 1 | link 2)

I’m surprised it wasn’t a bigger story. I mean– the protestors are lucky that more of them didn’t get the ever living crap beat out of them by both cops and shoppers.

After Mumbai, if I saw masked people rush into a shopping center I wouldn’t know what to think and would probably go into fight or flight mode and if I were near that… well, I’d try to get some swings in.

But maybe it wasn’t that big a deal as it wasn’t all over the websites/tv?