Protesters around the Triangle remember Minneapolis victims, call for national shutdown

Advocates across the country declared that Friday, Jan. 30 should be a day for “no work, no school, no shopping.”  They called for a National Shutdown to protest the immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

On the National Shutdown website, organizers labeled the Minnesota operation “ICE’s reign of terror.”  Several businesses across the triangle closed in solidarity- and student organizations at UNC, Duke and NC State called for students to join the walkout.

In Chapel Hill, a demonstration took place Friday on Franklin Street

Meanwhile, Thursday night in Durham, hundreds of people chanted songs and prayed for Alex Pretti – the nurse who was killed by federal agents last weekend.

As Anthony Guerra-Flores reports, they demanded accountability.