MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- At a home goods and gift store on Milwaukee's east side, the owner is offering free whistles to customers in response to the ICE activities and protests in Minneapolis. 

"I woke up this morning thinking a lot about what I had seen in the news," said Bridget Maniaci, owner of Goodland Home & Goods store. 

Bridget Maniaci runs the GoodLand Home & Goods store on N. Downer Avenue. In Minneapolis, demonstrators have been blowing whistles when they see ICE agents in action. 

Maniaci says she's seen stores in Chicago offering whistles and now she's doing the same. The goal, she says, is to give people a way to raise their voices about what's going on. 

"Just walking down the street, if there's something going on in your neighborhood and you're concerned and you don't know if you feel outmaneuvered or overpowered," said Maniaci. "I'm hopeful that this will give people the ability to feel that empowerment."

Maniaci says she has talked to friends and vendors in the Twin Cities, and since it's so close, it's not hard for her to imagine similar activity in Milwaukee. 

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