About 100 people marched down the side of Government Street in Baton Rouge just after 5 p.m. Sunday to protest the killings of Minnesota residents Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good by federal immigration enforcement agents this month and the treatment of U.S. citizens and immigrants by the U.S. government.
As the group walked a mile-long stretch of the thoroughfare chanting “No ICE. No KKK. No fascist USA,” cars honked as they passed. One woman rolled down her window and held up a fist to signal solidarity.
“I think there’s a lot of everyday, ordinary Louisianians in this group that just are upset by what is happening,” said Jacob Newsom, 38, a member of the Baton Rouge chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, the group primarily responsible for coordinating the protest…