Organizers are calling for no work, no school and no shopping, and some businesses said they would close their doors as part of the civil action.
Posters calling for statewide action and promoting the protest march and rally are pasted in the windows of businesses near the University of Minnesota.
“Everyone is welcome here, except I.C.E.,” reads a sign on the door to Wrecktangle Pizza.
Three weeks since 37-year-old U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer, the defiance of the city’s residents remains on full display.
Jeff Rogers, one of the Wrecktangle owners, said the pizza restaurant would be closed Friday and he’d attend the protest.
Signs posted at businesses in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
One of his co-workers is of Hmong descent, Craig said, and has had a lot of ICE activity in his neighborhood. »