Radical ‘ICE Watch’ Groups Recruit More Activists After Minneapolis Shooting, Trainings ‘At Capacity’

Following the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, the radical “ICE Watch” organization that she was working with is pushing to get more activists onto the streets.

The ICE Watch groups, which organize activists to follow and obstruct federal immigration agents making arrests across the country, are trying to get more activists out onto the streets where the Trump administration has warned that they could put their lives in danger.

On Saturday, thousands of activists participated in a church training in Roseville, Minnesota, where they were encouraged to annoy agents like “mosquitoes.” The group running the training session, Monarca, has scheduled six trainings since the shooting, all of which are “at capacity,” according to their website.

One of the local Minneapolis ICE watch groups, known as “defendthe612,” held a training the day after the shooting “for anyone who wants to learn how to plug in and for those who have already been in the streets and can share lessons from that experience,” according to an Instagram post.

“Practicing ICE Watch keeps our neighborhoods safer by ensuring people know their rights, have a plan, and know how to act in the event of targeting by ICE,” the post read. The group also organized a protest Friday night that later grew violent as rioters broke into a local hotel where they believed ICE agents were staying in Minneapolis.

A Minnesota woman named Kristin Peter said Good was on the same ICE Watch team as one of her coworkers, the New York Post reported. And despite Good’s fatal interaction with law enforcement, the activists don’t seem deterred. Peter said she herself was planning to attend of the group’s meetings Thursday night — and Minneapolis ICE Watch member Flannery Clark told CNN she’s not stopping either.

“We have to do what we can to protect our immigrant neighbors,” she said, adding that it’s “too dangerous” to block ICE. “We document and make sure that the families of people who are kidnapped can find them.”

 

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Just hours after the shooting, an Instagram account called “ICEoutoftwinports” said “NEED BODIES” in response to apparent Homeland Security Investigations activity at a daycare in Duluth, Minnesota.

Another post from the group that day asked “for people to SHOW UP in numbers” to an area where 100-200 agents were apparently spotted.

“Show up, record, inform them of their right to remain silent and not sign anything! Please proceed with caution and do not interfere directly with any investigation unless you are willing to face potential legal consequences,” the group wrote.

 

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The organization has also been asking agitators to harass hotels in the hopes to get them to kick ICE agents out.

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And some have already acted on the instructions from “ICE Watch” organizations.

Video captured by Fox News Friday showed Border Patrol agents warning two drivers against following them and impeding with their arrests in Minneapolis.

“If I continually see you following us, interfering with us, honking your horn, blocking our cars, you have a very high probability of making a really bad decision and being arrested today,” a masked Border Patrol agent said to the first woman as she sat in her car.

“I think I’m making exactly the right decision,” the woman responded.

Good apparently joined one of the activist groups after learning about it through her 6-year-old son’s leftist charter school, which prides itself on “involving kids in political and social activism,” according to the New York Post.

A mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told the outlet that Good “was trained against these ICE agents” on “what to do, what not to do, it’s a very thorough training,” adding that the training included how “to listen to commands, to know your rights, to whistle when you see an ICE agent.”

Good was killed after she appeared to be blocking a road ICE agents were trying to pass through. The officers could be heard in a video ordering her to get out of her vehicle, before she put it in reverse and then in drive.

BREAKING: Alpha News has obtained cellphone footage showing perspective of federal agent at center of ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/p2wks0zew0

— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) January 9, 2026

One video appeared to show the ICE officer take a hit as he was standing in front of the car before shots were fired.

🚨 BREAKING: Was just sent a video showing the moments before the shooting.

In it, you can clearly see Renee Good’s vehicle blocking ICE agents for over 3 minutes as she’s dancing to her own car horn.

Kinda ruins some narratives, doesn’t it? pic.twitter.com/aXtiTjAtF9

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) January 10, 2026

Video taken minutes before appeared to show Good repeatedly honking her horn as her car blocked the road and she danced to the loud noise from the driver’s seat.

“I’m not happy that this woman was there at a protest violating the law by interfering with a law enforcement action. I think that we can all recognize that the best way to turn down the temperature is to tell people to take their concerns about immigration policy to the ballot box,” Vice President JD Vance said during a press conference Thursday.

“Stop assaulting and stop inciting violence against our law enforcement officers. That’s the best way to take down the temperature,” he said.

ICE Chief Dares Philly Sheriff To Follow Through On Threat To Arrest Immigration Agents: ‘Try It’

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons fired back on Saturday at the  Philadelphia Sheriff who’d threatened to arrest ICE agents, telling her to go ahead and “try it, see what happens.”

Lyons addressed Sheriff Rochelle Bilal’s comments directly during an appearance on “The Big Weekend Show” on Fox News, saying that Bilal was only feeding into the already dangerous situation ICE agents were facing every day by pitting local law enforcement against federal law enforcement.

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ICE Director FIRES BACK At Democrat Threats To Arrest ICE Agents

Todd Lyons: “You can’t pit a local law enforcement officer against a federal law enforcement officer … My message to the Sheriff is try it, try to arrest my folks. Let’s see what happens.” https://t.co/ZyZC2GgB08 pic.twitter.com/Jd4yZXErhk

— Mr Producer (@RichSementa) January 11, 2026

“Any time you pit law enforcement officers against law enforcement officers, it makes nobody safe,” Lyons said. “This is the exact type of political rhetoric that I’ve been seeing ever since I had the opportunity to be the ICE Director … this increased rhetoric is what’s causing the issues right now. You can’t pit a local law enforcement officer against a federal law enforcement officer. We are out there trying to do a lawful law enforcement mission, and this rhetoric right here is a pure example of what we’re facing every day.”

Lyons went on to say that he wasn’t normally one to engage in public bluster, but his message to the sheriff was simple: “Try it, try to arrest my folks. Let’s see what happens.”

Bilal tore into ICE a day earlier, claiming that federal agents were the ones committing crimes when they moved to enforce federal immigration law.

“Those that come into our communities wearing masks to commit crime—and thank God for our District Attorney Larry Krasner, who says he’s gonna lock them up … you’re getting arrested … we stand here today with all those who stand against the made-up fake, what you can call ICE,” she said. “Professional law enforcement? I’m not calling none of that. I call them made-up, fake wanna-be law enforcement. Because what they do is against not only legal law but moral law … you will not be able to hide. Nobody will whisk you off. You don’t want this smoke, because we’ll bring it to you. And the fake, whatever they call them because I can put … I can’t say their name. But the criminal in the White House will not keep you from going to jail.”

The Philadelphia Police Department also issued a statement in response to Bilal’s comments, saying that she was not in charge of municipal policing and that the city’s police officers would continue to work in conjunction with other “law enforcement partners” moving forward.

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— Kevin J. Bethel (@PPDCommish) January 9, 2026

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