About 50 demonstrators with UnidosMN were warned by Target management and Richfield police Sunday that they would be arrested if they brought protest signs inside the store, including an image of the viral hat once worn by five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, who was wrongfully detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in January.
The warning came during a protest outside the Target at 6445 Richfield Parkway, exactly one month after federal agents wrongfully detained two U.S. citizen Target workers at the same location.
What unfolded was an unlikely collision of corporate power and cultural resistance. Target and Bad Bunny.
The pairing may seem unexpected, but organizers say the connection is deliberate. Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, condemned ICE during his Grammy acceptance speech after winning Best Música Urbana Album…