Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside of Home Depot in West Boca on Saturday morning to protest ICE following the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis this past week.
They carried signs reading “ICE: Innocent Citizen Executioners” and chanted “Say her name! Renee Nicole Good!” One man, wearing a Santa costume, walked around chanting, “Ho ho ho, ICE has got to go.”
The protest, which drew over 200 people to the intersection outside of the Home Depot in the 9800 block of Glades Road, had been planned prior to the shooting to demand that Home Depot reject ICE raids targeting undocumented workers at its stores. But it quickly shifted focus after Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and legal observer, was shot and killed by an ICE agent on Wednesday, sparking national outrage. Dozens of similar protests were held throughout Florida and the rest of the country Saturday, including one in Wilton Manors; protesters also gathered in Coral Springs Friday evening.
Jennifer Jones, an organizer with Hope and Action Indivisible, which led Saturday’s protest, said only 50 people had signed up before the shooting; afterwards, more than 400 said they planned on attending.
The shooting struck a chord for many attendees, some of whom, like Good, are legal observers and activists who have followed ICE during enforcement operations in South Florida. Legal observers are volunteers who act as witnesses, Jones explained, taking down names to ensure that families of those detained know where they are.
“We’re doing exactly what she was doing,” Jones told the South Florida Sun Sentinel, adding that “it definitely hit home. I have a wife; she had a wife. It’s like, oh my gosh, that could be me.”
Protesters along Glades Road outside the Home Depot in Boca Raton on Saturday January 10, 2026, call on Home Depot to take a clear stand against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel)
Good’s shooting has sparked heavy backlash and debate. While critics have described it as an unjustified use of force, the Trump administration and its supporters defended the ICE agent’s actions as justified, saying it appeared that Good was attempting to hit him with her car. Journalists’ video analyses have argued that Good appeared to be attempting to turn her car away from the agents.
As protesters chanted Saturday, many passing drivers honked in support, while a few others gave the middle finger, while one man blasted “Ice Ice Baby” from his car. The event was largely peaceful, though a few altercations took place between protesters and a small number of isolated counter-protesters. Leonard Pola Rae, 66, told the Sun Sentinel that a man punched her sign; she reported the incident to Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies, who told the two to separate but did not make any arrests.
The majority of Saturday’s attendees were middle-aged or older. Several are members of South Florida’s activist community and have gone to several protests before, such as the “No Kings” anti-Trump rallies.
Many said they were struck by the footage of the shooting, as well as reports that a doctor attempted to render aid to Good but ICE stopped him.
“They’re not law enforcement, they’re just a bunch of guys cosplaying as law enforcement,” said Heidi Rabinowitz, 58, adding that the shooting was just “the top of the list,” and that she was also concerned about the U.S. involvement in Venezuela.
Lori Chops, 62, found out about the protest while celebrating her birthday Saturday morning and decided to join. She has attended other protests in the past, she said, but “today I’m here for Renee Good.”
She was particularly troubled by the fact that people could watch the same video of Good’s shooting that she had, but come away thinking it was justified.
“I’m saddened by the hatred that exists today,” she said, “and the willful blindness.”
Towards the peak of the demonstration, organizers spoke to the crowd and held a moment of silence for Good.
“Renee Good is one of many,” Tessa Petit, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition, said in a speech. “The next day there was another shooting. It is not going to stop until the people of America say, ‘it must stop.’”
Petit encouraged attendees to help immigrants in the community avoid traffic stops by fixing their tail lights or removing illegal license plate covers.
Some attendees said they had not protested the administration before Saturday but felt spurred by recent events.
One of them, Alyssa Cordisco, 43, chose to attend with her 8-year-old daughter, Myla and their dog, Pickles.
A combination of things brought Cordisco to the protest, including, she said, footage she has seen online of Good’s killing as well as immigrants being beaten or separated from their families. Cordisco also had a friend who was recently taken to the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center in the Everglades; she was shocked to realize the facility hadn’t been shut down.
“I don’t know how we could possibly not come,” Cordisco said. “It is so out of control right now and appalling.”
Junior, Aly and Chris, best friends who grew up in Boca Raton together, also said Saturday was their first protest. They asked that their last names not be used, citing safety concerns.
“We think it’s gone too far already,” Junior, 28, told the Sun Sentinel. “It’s not the America we grew up in.”
Aly, 30, added that she felt that events like Good’s shooting might have a chilling effect on dissent, something that she wanted to counteract.
“I think showing up became important because it feels like they’re making a concerted effort to discourage people from coming out,” she said, “by making it feel unsafe, by making it feel like they’re watching you, by making it feel like you could die.”
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