BATON ROUGE — More than a week after the fatal shooting of a woman by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota, protests are growing across the country, including in Baton Rouge.

On Saturday, residents and community groups gathered in front of Ideal Market on Sherwood Forest Boulevard to call for an end to ICE operations nationwide and for the arrest of the officer involved in the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis.

Chants rang out along the roadway as demonstrators held signs and shared personal stories about how federal immigration enforcement has affected their lives.

Organizers say the rally aimed to highlight the impact ICE actions have had on immigrant communities and to demand accountability.

The demonstration comes after ICE agents fatally shot Good, an American citizen, during an operation in Minnesota. Since then, activists nationwide have raised concerns about enforcement tactics and the broader direction of federal immigration policy.

One speaker, Sara Louis-Ayo, said communities must look to each other for protection and support.

“I don't look at people who wrote these policies and who agree with ICE to be in our communities, to be the people who would save us,” Louis-Ayo said. “We save ourselves. The community saves ourselves.”

Louis-Ayo, who has lived in Louisiana for 25 years, described a past encounter with law enforcement that continues to shape her view of immigration enforcement.

“Like eight years ago, me just being active and protesting, I was stopped by a sheriff who initially threatened to take me into ICE. And I'm a citizen of this country,” Louis-Ayo said.

Many at the rally said the protest was not only about the Minnesota shooting, but about a larger sense of fear and uncertainty within immigrant communities.

“Just seeing what's happening and how our communities are afraid and then being terrorized by ICE is really heartbreaking,” Louis-Ayo added.

She also urged people to stay engaged and continue organizing.

“Stand in solidarity, not just showing up, but actually being on the ground, doing the grassroots organizing and helping us,” Louis-Ayo said.

Federal immigration agents who had been conducting enforcement sweeps in Louisiana earlier this year have since left the state to assist in ongoing operations in Minnesota.