Hundreds of businesses across the Twin Cities were closed Friday morning as thousands of Minnesotans were expected to participate in a daylong economic blackout to protest the federal immigration crackdown that has roiled their state.

Nearly 50,000 people were expected to participate in hundreds of protests across the country, organizers said.

Minneapolis and St. Paul have seen daily protests since Renee Good was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Jan. 7.

Southern Baptist Convention leaders' outcry over Jan. 18 anti-ICE protest at Minneapolis church fuels calls for strengthening protective measures.

Whatever the term, historians largely agree: The United States was born out of protest 250 years ago and has been propelled forward by raucous social movements, from abolition to civil rights, ever since. “Protests have been pivotal to the progress of this country,” said Gloria Browne-Marshall, author of “A Protest History of the United States."

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The victim's cousin said plainclothes officers in masks approached with guns drawn, and shot Wali Bey as he tried to drive away.

Locals are speaking out against President Trump’s gestures toward annexing the territory, and the song “Greenland Belongs to Greenlanders” has become “a soundtrack of the movement.”