The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard.
He didn’t want to go to work at the restaurant that Sunday morning, but several of his fellow cooks had already called out, fearful of the immigration agents swarming the city. Just four days earlier, ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good through her car window, the fatal bullet entering her left temple, as she and her wife protested the agents’ presence in their south Minneapolis neighborhood. Henriquez Serrano had seen the video; it made him feel sick to the stomach.
“I’m counting on you to come in,” Henriquez Serrano’s manager had texted. So he put on his work clothes — dark jeans, a black tee shirt and a faux leather jacket with grey lining — and drove to the gas station closest to his home, the Speedway at the intersection of Snelling and Portland Avenues in St. Paul…