MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Several dozen protesters were arrested Saturday outside a federal building in Minneapolis as police broke up a protest marking the first month since a Minnesota woman was killed by an immigration agent.

Renee Good was killed Jan. 7 while driving away from immigration agents in a Minneapolis neighborhood. His death and that of another Minneapolis resident, Alex Pretti, a few weeks later, have sparked national outrage over President Donald Trump's escalating immigration crackdown.

Dozens of protesters gathered around noon on the sidewalk in front of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, throwing bottles and sex toys at a line of police guarding the property. The Hennepin County Police Department said the arrests began after the crowd began throwing ice chips and damaging some property. An officer was hit in the head and the windshield of a patrol vehicle was shattered, the department reported on its Facebook page.

The police declared the gathering illegal and ordered the protesters to leave. Many did, the Star Tribune reported, but about 100 remained in a standoff with police officers, state troopers and state conservation agents.

The police department later reported to television station KSTP that at least 42 arrests were made. As of Saturday afternoon, no one in the police department had responded to emails, voice messages and text messages sent by The Associated Press.

Meanwhile, on Saturday, hundreds of people gathered in a snow-covered field in a Minneapolis park to honor Good and Pretti. Event organizers repeated recent criticism of the immigration crackdown across Minnesota, calling it a federal occupation.

A Lakota spiritual leader, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, led a ceremony at the front of the crowd, with many people carrying signs and American flags. Others shared music and poetry to honor the two people who, in recent weeks, have become central figures in the polarizing immigration debate.

On January 7, a federal immigration agent shot and killed Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, in her car in Minneapolis. Three officers surrounded her Honda Pilot SUV on a snowy street a few blocks from where she lived. Video taken by a bystander shows an agent approaching the SUV stopped in the middle of the road, demanding that the driver open the door and grabbing the handle.

The vehicle began to move forward, and another Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in front of it pulled out his gun and immediately fired at point-blank range, backing away as the vehicle moved toward him. The Trump administration called Good a domestic terrorist who tried to run over an agent with her vehicle. State and local authorities have rejected that characterization.

Pretti was murdered on January 24 during an altercation with immigration agents on the street. A video recorded by a bystander shows half a dozen officers taking him to the ground. One saw the gun of Pretti, who had a license to carry, and shouted “He has a gun.” Then two agents opened fire.

The Trump administration's border czar, Tom Homan, announced Wednesday that the administration would withdraw 700 immigration agents from Minnesota, about a quarter of the troops deployed in the state, after state and local authorities agreed last week to cooperate by turning over arrested immigrants. However, Homan did not say when the administration would end its offensive in the state.

Good's wife, Becca Good, issued a statement Saturday saying the immigration effort hurts people in Minneapolis and no one knows their names.

“You know my wife's name and you know Alex's name, but there are many others in this city who are being harmed and who you don't know, and their families are suffering just like mine, even if they don't look like mine,” Becca Good said in the statement. "They are neighbors, friends, co-workers, classmates. And we should know their names, too. Because this shouldn't happen to anyone."

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This story was translated from English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.