Overview
- More than 400 tech employees from firms including Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia and Salesforce urged CEOs to call the White House, cancel ICE contracts, and publicly condemn the agency’s violence.
- Over 60 Minnesota-based CEOs, including leaders at Target, 3M, Best Buy and General Mills, signed a brief de-escalation letter that did not mention ICE or the victims, drawing criticism from advocates and some Democrats.
- Roughly 284 Target employees asked management to bar immigration agents from company properties and take a stronger public stand, even as legal guidance limits retailers’ ability to block law enforcement in public areas.
- Top tech CEOs have stayed largely silent, though figures like Reid Hoffman, Jeff Dean and Yann LeCun denounced the shooting, while several industry leaders attended a White House film screening the night Pretti was killed.
- Large protests and labor-led economic actions grew across Minnesota, with tens of thousands marching and hundreds of businesses closing in solidarity, as officials’ descriptions of Pretti as a threat clashed with video evidence cited by reporters.