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Two weeks ago, Indivisible threw an anti-ICE street party, with a DJ, in the hometown of Sheridan Gorman, the Yorktown 18-year-old murdered in March. Her grieving sister begged them to understand what that meant to her family. Their answer: protest again. And the signs they have carried tell you exactly who they are.

Pearl River, NY — 6/13/2026… On May 30, Northern Westchester Indivisible (NWI) held what it advertised as a “pop-up protest” at Route 118 and Commerce Street in Yorktown. The advertisement’s words, not ours: “Let’s Make Some Music!” It promised “our own DJ TiltCat,” described as “the hardest working music man in Westchester protests.” NWI felt it appropriate to host a dance party against immigration enforcement, staged in the hometown of a family that buried their 18-year-old daughter ten weeks earlier. Sheridan Gorman was shot and killed near her college campus in Chicago on March 19. The man charged with her murder is an undocumented immigrant who, by the Department of Homeland Security’s own account, had been released from custody twice, once despite an active ICE detainer.

Sheridan’s sister, Madelon, responded with extraordinary restraint. “Seeing an anti-ICE protest take place in our hometown, a town that means so much to my family, has been incredibly painful,” she wrote. “These are the streets we grew up on, the schools we attended, the fields where we played.” Yorktown’s Town Supervisor publicly asked the question every neighbor was asking: why here, and why now?

Northern Westchester Indivisible’s response to a grieving sister’s plea was to double down and host yet another protest in the Gormans’ hometown.

And residents of NY-17 should see what Northern Westchester Indivisible’s street corners actually look like. At their protests, members have carried signs declaring that ICE is running “concentration camps,” an insult to all those who survived the Holocaust. Another sign displayed at one NWI event placed a Ku Klux Klan hood side by side with a photograph of an ICE officer, captioned “now available in tactical black.” And yet another protester held a cartoon of a flag-draped military coffin, the image under which this nation receives its fallen, repurposed as a profane punchline. Photos of all three are below:

Congressman Mike Lawler released the following statement in response:

“Concentration camps. Klan hoods. A flag-draped coffin with a curse word over it. That is the iconography Northern Westchester Indivisible carries through our towns, and decided the right place for its next performance was the hometown of a murdered 18-year-old, after her sister told them, in the gentlest possible terms, that it was a knife in her family’s wound. Yet, they did it anyway. Every candidate who counts on Indivisible volunteers owes the Gormans an answer: is this what your movement stands for? Say it in Yorktown, out loud, so this family can hear you.”

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