Hundreds of shops, restaurants and cultural institutions closed their doors Friday and activists urged Minnesotans to stay home as part of a protest against the federal deportation operation now in its eighth week.
The “ICE Out! Statewide Shutdown” was planned by labor and faith leaders. Thousands of demonstrators gathered in downtown Minneapolis for a march to Target Center.
Here’s what else you need to know:
- A 2-year-old detained by federal agents in Minneapolis was reunited with her mother Friday.
- Witnesses are refuting the federal government’s repeated assertions that a 5-year-old was “abandoned” by his father before both were detained in Columbia Heights this week.
- Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino and assistant ICE director Marcos Charles, who will hold another news conference Saturday morning, are fighting back against what they call a “false narrative about what we do and who we are and who we arrest.”
- Two women detained by ICE say they helped an agent having a seizure while being transported to the Whipple federal building.
We’re following reports of individual incidents, as well as providing broader context and stories about the enforcement effort. Email tips to whistleblower@startribune.com.
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