SCITUATE – Over 300 people attended a protest Sunday on Lawson Common in response to the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a U.S. citizen, by an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis last week. It was one of over a thousand demonstrations nationwide this weekend protesting the escalation of ICE activity.
The Scituate chapter of Indivisible began preparing the Sunday protest, which was a collaboration with the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Scituate, the night of Good’s killing, said one organizer. Indivisible is a national progressive organization that also organized the No Kings protests in June.
Attendees waved American flags and signs criticizing ICE and President Trump as passing cars honked in support.
“ICE is behaving in ways that no American can approve of,” said Ken Goode, a Marshfield resident who attended the protest.
Maryann Perry, a Scituate resident and a member of Indivisible Scituate’s steering committee, said the goal of the protest was to “support people in understanding” what she and other organizers called the “threats to democracy” posed by the Trump administration and ICE.
“We don't want people to feel isolated or confused, or worse, scared about all the changes and the threats to democracy that are happening,” she said. “So by creating a community, sharing ideas, working together, we can support each other and we can make better changes happen.”
Perry said Indivisible Scituate has held regular protests against the Trump administration since the No Kings protests in June 2025.
Leslie Kirwan, the former Secretary of Administration and Finance of Massachusetts and a Marshfield resident, joined an Indivisible Zoom call encouraging people to organize protests the day before she attended the one in Scituate, and “there were a hundred demonstrations planned in just that hour-long call,” she said. She held a sign that said “resist the fear” and faced the road with a long line of other protesters.
Kirwan came with Martha Smith, another Marshfield resident, who said she regularly attends protests advertised by the Marshfield Democratic party.
“We have to keep getting the word out there and I'm hoping if more people get out there, they'll be inspired,” she said. “The more people that are out there, maybe they'll start to pay attention.”
One organizer, Nicole Eckhart, said it was important for her to attend anti-ICE protests because she believes ICE officers target people regardless of immigration status.
“All of us are potential victims,” she said. “And I think the recent murder of Renee Nicole Good really highlighted that.”
John Bowes, the chair of the Marshfield Democratic Town Committee, stood at a plastic table handing out American flag stickers and offering sign-in sheets to new arrivals. The sign-in sheets had 300 spaces, and they ran out of room before the end of the event.
During the 2024 election season, Bowes said Indivisible rallies would attract 50 people at most. Now, there are typically 200 to 500.
“Most of the people we have showing up are first timers, just pissed off and ready to get involved,” he said.
Indivisible Scituate’s next event will be a demonstration at Town Hall on Martin Luther King, Jr. day.