Protesters in Baltimore marched against the federal immigration crackdown Thursday evening, halting traffic as they demanded the agency’s officers leave the city one day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a woman in Minnesota.

People gathered around 6 p.m. in McKeldin Plaza on East Pratt Street, some holding signs that read “Justice for Renee Jail ICE” and “Defund Dismantle ICE,” before heading to the George H. Fallon Federal Building to join other demonstrators. The rally is one of many across the country since the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in her vehicle on Wednesday.

“This building behind us is another crucial component of ICE’s daily violence,” said Leopoldo Posada Escobar, one of several organizers of the demonstration in front of the Fallon Federal Building. He decried the conditions of ICE’s hold rooms inside the building, where immigrants have spent days in sparsely furnished cells before being transferred to more permanent detention facilities out of state.

Jake Ecker of the Baltimore Party for Socialism and Liberation took the microphone at Hopkins Plaza to let protesters know another two people were shot by ICE in Portland, Oregon, sparking an uproar in the crowd.

“Two people sit in the hospital right now,” he said. “They should be at home with their families.”

Ecker said the protest on Thursday came together in 24 hours, adding that it would be bigger in the future.

The group of protesters swelled as it marched from Hopkins Plaza, shutting down traffic for the second time Thursday evening.

Neighbors from nearby apartments and store workers peered out of their windows and doors, occasionally yelling in support of the crowd as it walked down West Fayette.

A bystander video of the shooting in a residential neighborhood in Minneapolis has sparked outrage among Minnesota politicians and city residents.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has claimed the officer shot Good in self-defense. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey responded that her versions of events are “bullshit” and called for ICE agents to leave the city.

In an Oval Office interview with reporters from The New York Times, President Donald Trump said, “I want to see nobody get shot. I want to see nobody screaming and trying to run over policemen, either.”

A New York Times analysis of a collection of videos from the scene found the footage contradicts the Trump administration’s retelling of what took place during the shooting.

Just before 6 p.m., Clifford “Buzz” Grambo, called the “Paul Revere of Patterson Park” who has patrolled his East Baltimore neighborhood watching for signs of ICE, was part of the crowd outside the federal building. When Grambo saw the video, he said he thought, “yeah, that could have been me.”

Laura White and Alicia Corman, who came to the protest at McKeldin Plaza, said they were shaken by the shooting in Minneapolis.

“I was so angry,” White said.

“I think we’re motivated to be here today because we actually can see the truth with our very eyes,” Corman added.

About 250 people gathered at 6 p.m. Thursday at Truth and Remembrance Park in downtown Towson.

The Rev. John Ballenger of Woodbrook Baptist Church offered a prayer for Good’s family and a scorching critique of the Trump administration.

“We curse those the fruit of whose lives are manifest and instincts, always reaching to blame someone else and justify the violence and calling they instigate, who never expressed regret or compassion, who never name grief or take responsibility,” he said.

Baltimore County councilman Izzy Patoka, who will introduce several bills concerning ICE’s practices at Tuesday’s work session, urged the community to remain vigilant.

“We are here because we have choices. We have choices to be engaged, and we have a choice to do nothing. Our brothers and sisters across the country have chosen to engage and not sit on the sidelines and watch our vice president call Renee Good a deranged domestic terrorist.”

Dana Vickers Shelley, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, said Good was killed while exercising her civil rights.

“What happened in Minnesota could happen here, and we must act to make sure that it doesn’t,” she said.

“No matter who is in power, our leaders have a duty to protect our freedom, not crush it. When we show up together peacefully, joyfully, lawfully and persistently, we remind this country what democracy looks like.”

While politicians have called for an investigation by the state, Minnesota investigators said they have been denied access to evidence, The Associated Press reported.

More than 2,000 immigration officers are in the Minneapolis area, according to the AP, in what DHS has said is the largest immigration enforcement operation ever. Customs and Border Patrol, along with ICE agents, has been dispersed in cities across the country as part of the Trump administration’s large-scale deportation efforts.

The president had vowed during this campaign to target enforcement on “violent criminal illegal aliens.” A Banner analysis found most of those arrested in Maryland last year had no criminal history.

Hundreds of Minneapolis residents have been protesting against ICE agents since the fatal shooting. The last time major protests in Minneapolis spurred nationwide rallies was the summer of 2020, after George Floyd was killed during a police arrest.

The deadly shooting in Minneapolis comes after ICE agents fired at a man in a Glen Burnie neighborhood on Christmas Eve. The Department of Homeland Security claimed that Tiago Alexandre Sousa-Martins, the man who was shot, attempted to ram his vehicle into ICE agents.

Sousa-Martins, an immigrant from Portugal, is now in Caroline Detention Facility. Efforts to reach him and his family have been unsuccessful.

DHS said a man from El Salvador, Salomon Serrano-Esquivel, was in the van with Sousa-Martins. An attorney for the family of Serrano-Esquivel has denied those claims and has said Serrano-Esquivel was in ICE custody when the shooting happened.

On Thursday, Anne Arundel County Police for the first time publicly disputed the federal agency’s account of the violent Christmas Eve incident.

The Banner’s Alex Mann contributed to this report.

This article has been updated.