Subject: Ingenious
A particularly headline-grabbing protest was staged last weekend at the Home Depot in Monrovia, California, a location picked because it’s where Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdés, 52, from Guatemala died on the freeway after being hit by an SUV while running from an ICE raid. Last weekend, protesters walked into the store en masse, picked up $0.17 ice scrapers (get it?), bought them one by one, then queued up again to return each purchased tool. This was all perfectly legal, but it created retail chaos: enormous, slow-moving lines. The checkout-clogging action ultimately forced the location to temporarily close.