Yesterday Minneapolis Parks & Rec canceled youth sports this weekend, b/c of ICE. Now their website looks strange.UPDATE

[highplainsdem]

UPDATE - See the replies below. The red tint across the site's pages turned out to be an overlay caused by some browsers/devices not properly displaying a banner across the top of each page.

Minneapolis Parks and Recreation has canceled youth sports because ICE is terrorizing our community

— Moth (@walkingminnesota.com) 2026-01-16T00:53:29.567Z

Three days ago commissioner-at-large Amber Frederick had asked people to report any ICE activity around the parks to the park board:

www.minneapolisparks.org/ice-response/
If you notice ICE activity in or around Minneapolis Parks violating the executive order, please send evidence to
[e-mail]

— Amber Frederick 🌳 (@amberforparks.bsky.social) 2026-01-12T23:41:47.317Z

There's a link to the Parks website in her post, and two links to the website from the parks page on the city's website, at https://www.minneapolismn.gov/things-to-do/parks-recreation/ .

Those links: https://www.minneapolisparks.org/ and https://www.minneapolisparks.org/about_us/ .
All three of those links to the parks website now bring up pages that are all but impossible to read because of a red background or overlay. I'd never looked at the website before, but I'm sure that isn't the normal appearance. I haven't seen any social media posts about problems with the site, but given their opposition to ICE...

Nanjeanne (reply 1) says the pages at those links look fine.

Every link I try for the website has the page obscured with a shade of red like the second shade on the second line of the image on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_red

Again, every other website I look at is fine.

[Nanjeanne]

1. All 3 links look perfectly fine to me.

[highplainsdem]

2. They come up almost unreadable because of a red tint for me, and other websites are fine.

[Nittersing]

3. They all look okay to me too nt

[Nanjeanne]

11. Try clearing your cache.

[highplainsdem]

12. I did, and that didn't change anything. But advice from replies below helped. It was a banner incorrectly

displaying as an overlay on some browsers or devices.

[-misanthroptimist]

4. If you go into your browser settings...

...you should be able to control how websites appear. I have my browser set to "Dark" mode and both links are fine.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Probably your browser. On mine it's just a red alert banner along the top that I can X out of.

[MustLoveBeagles]

6. I tried the links. UPDATE

Link 1 is viewable for me. 2 & 3 take longer to load and have the red overlay you described in your OP. So it's not just you.


I tried again after reading WhiskeyGrinder's post. The red overlay was still there, but I clicked on the x in the middle and it went away.

[highplainsdem]

9. The X was in the middle? I'd looked at the top because it was apparently not showing a banner across

the top properly. When I looked farther down the page I found the X and clicked it, and now the page is fine.

[MustLoveBeagles]

10. 👍

[drray23]

7. Its an overlay with the message. Just click on the X to remove it.

[highplainsdem]

8. I don't see an X. It's okay, though, since now I know it's just displaying wrong on my computer. I'd

just wanted to post about the youth activities for the weekend being cancelef (damn ICE!) but then the weird appearance of the pages made me wonder what was wrong with the site.