Chipotle distances itself from Bill Ackman after ICE donation sparks boycott calls

Chipotle distanced itself from billionaire hedge funder Bill Ackman after he said he donated $10,000 to a fundraiser for the ICE agent who fatally shot a Minneapolis protester — igniting online calls to boycott the fast-casual Mexican food chain in which his firm was once a major investor.“Bill Ackman is not affiliated with Chipotle,” the company said in a one-sentence statement posted Monday on Threads, an unusual public disavowal that illustrated the sensitivity around Ackman’s political activism and his ...