A San Francisco bakery is facing online criticism after selling cookies featuring messages critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Devil’s Teeth Baking Company began offering shortbread cookies iced with the phrase “F— ICE” at its three locations this week, following recent agent-involved shootings and unrest in Minnesota, FOX 2 San Francisco reported.
Owner Hilary Passman said the bakery has been selling roughly 300 cookies per day at $3.50 each, with proceeds going to the Minnesota Community Action Network, a coalition of more than 1,000 anti-poverty advocacy groups. “I don’t think anybody should be murdered in broad daylight. I don’t think these anti-immigration sweeps should be happening,” Passman told FOX 2. “I just think it’s all pretty terrible.”
The bakery said the cookies have been well-received by many customers, though the campaign has drawn criticism online. Some commentators called the message “totally ignorant,” arguing that ICE is “doing the job that the law requires,” according to FOX 2.
Passman said the criticism has not changed her stance. “I don’t care, everyone’s allowed to have their opinions, and I’m allowed to have mine—and mine is ‘F— ICE,’” she said, adding that she plans to continue selling the cookies. “We’re going to keep doing this as long as ICE is killing people.”
Regular customer Whitney Spence said she visited the bakery as soon as she heard about the fundraiser, describing the cookie as tasting “like democracy.”
The controversy comes amid heightened tensions in Minneapolis following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a Department of Veterans Affairs ICU nurse, who was shot Saturday by Border Patrol agents while recording federal immigration enforcement operations. Two U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Border Patrol agents involved have been placed on administrative leave, Fox News reported.
The Department of Homeland Security said the administrative leave is standard procedure and should not be interpreted as an indication of wrongdoing.
Devil’s Teeth Baking Company did not immediately respond to a request for comment from FOX Business.