UPDATE: A Black Lives Matter St. Paul organizer said the Roseville mall protest was meant to be a diversion for another protest in Falcon Heights, but the group took into account that three police officers were fatally shot in Baton Rouge that morning and wanted “to be mindful of the tension.”

Black Lives Matter St. Paul announced Sunday that it was cancelling a protest it planned at Roseville’s Rosedale shopping center Sunday afternoon to press Falcon Heights to terminate its contract with St. Anthony police, whose officer shot and killed Philando Castile during a traffic stop.

“Recently we announced that there would be an action at the Rosedale mall to protest the killing of ‪#‎PhilandoCastile‬; a 32 year old cafeteria supervisor at JJ Hill Montesorri in St. Paul, by St. Anthony police in Falcon Heights,” Black Lives Matter St. Paul announced in a statement Sunday. “And also to affect ‘business as usual’ for folks in the area where Philando was killed.

“However, the Rosedale Mall has already started to shut itself down,” the statement continued. “Stores have already closed or are in the process of closing down. Economic impact? Boom. So due to the Rosedale Mall effectively shutting itself down; we have achieved the economic impact we were aiming for and therefore we have no need to go to the mall at 1 PM today.”

Many people were shopping at the mall Sunday afternoon. There was a police presence at the mall at about 1 p.m. and private security guard was handing mall goers a “rules of conduct” list to mall-goers as they entered.

Black Lives Matter St. Paul initially announced Wednesday, “Lets shut it down … (L)ets hit them where it hurt$.”

The group made the announcement because Falcon Heights hasn’t taken steps to end the contract, including at a city council meeting Wednesday night.

On Thursday, Rosedale Center’s general manager and a Roseville police spokesman declined comment.

The mall passed out memos Thursday advising merchants to close their gates if they feel store security is in jeopardy during the protest. It said merchants must close their gates if a protest group stations itself directly outside a store.

Black Lives Matter Minneapolis has twice coordinated protests at the Mall of America.

On Dec. 23, hundreds of demonstrators started at MOA and went to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where they shut down roads to the airport and disrupted service on the biggest holiday travel day of the year. Police made arrests, but charges were not filed after Gov. Mark Dayton asked airport officials not to press charges. That protest was focused on the Minneapolis police killing of Jamar Clark in November.

In December 2014, 2,000 to 3,000 protesters gathered at the Mall of America as part of nationwide protests after police officers weren’t charged in the deaths of black men in Missouri and New York. The mall demonstration, which was peaceful, temporarily closed about 80 stores and resulted in two dozen arrests.