On Friday morning, Minneapolis resident Corey Lamb closed his business, Harriet Grove Botanicals, in solidarity and headed to a protest. He objected to the presence of ICE agents in his city, and was outraged by Good’s death in early January.
He also saw the immigration raids as an economic threat to his business, and others in his community.
“We have a lot of friends that we rely on, we have a lot of businesses that we rely on, in order to make our business work,” Lamb told the BBC.
“When those individuals are struggling because they’re afraid of being detained or disappeared, it has an effect not only morally but economically on what’s going on here, and also in the greater Midwest.”
Lamb’s business was joined by hundreds of others, from restaurants and tattoo parlours to toy stores.
Kim Bartmann is the owner of six restaurants in Minneapolis, including four that remain open in the winter but that she shut on Friday.
While she supports the cause, she said the decision to participate had been a tricky one, given the costs.
“Everyone is in solidarity, but everyone needs to buy groceries and pay their rents,” she said, noting that staff at one of her locations had initially asked to stay open, before deciding the risk of backlash over not participating would be too great.
“Economically, it is a severe blow to my business,” she said.
She said sales at her restaurants, which include Barbette and Gigi’s Café, have already dropped more than 30% over the past three weeks as a result of the ICE operation, which has prompted her to limit her opening hours as customers and staff stay home.
“We have a lot of employees who are US citizens or have paperwork to work in the US who are still terrified to leave their homes,” she said.
ICE’s presence has outraged many of Minnesota’s residents, who have protested against their operations and other federal officers operating in their city.
This week, school officials in the suburb of Columbia Heights announced that four of their students had been detained by ICE, ranging from ages five to 17.
A two-year-old child was also detained on Thursday alongside her undocumented father while returning home from a grocery store in south Minneapolis, according to CBS News, the BBC’s US partner.