{"id":2532897,"date":"2026-01-12T00:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-professional-activists-sabotage-ice-arrests-21\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T00:40:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:40:31","slug":"heres-how-professional-activists-sabotage-ice-arrests-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-professional-activists-sabotage-ice-arrests-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s How Professional Activists Sabotage ICE Arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fheres-how-professional-activists-sabotage-ice-arrests-21%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2532897&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports on the death of Renee Nicole Good,a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman who was fatally shot by an ICE officer after she allegedly accelerated her vehicle toward an agent during a targeted enforcement operation. It says Good had been active in a local &#8220;ICE Watch&#8221; group that trains activists to monitor and disrupt immigration enforcement, and it describes training programs and tactics-such as the S.A.L.U.T.E.reporting method and use of encrypted apps like Signal-used by anti\u2011ICE organizers nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The piece cites video of the incident, statements from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and ICE asserting the officer fired in self\u2011defense, and background noting that the same officer had been injured in a previous enforcement incident. It also highlights responses from immigrant\u2011rights groups and organizations like the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant &#038; Refugee Rights, which condemned the shooting and labeled it an example of ICE brutality.<\/p>\n<p>Framing the event in a broader context, the article argues that decentralized neighborhood monitoring and &#8220;direct action&#8221; tactics have escalated tensions between activists and federal agents, points to DHS claims of an increase in vehicle attacks on immigration officers, and criticizes media and left\u2011leaning groups for portraying Good as a martyr. The piece concludes by warning that the incident could spark renewed protests similar to past unrest in Minneapolis. The article is authored by matt Kittle for The federalist.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>While the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/07\/media-dont-want-you-to-know-anti-ice-driver-in-minneapolis-rammed-agents-with-her-car\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accomplice media<\/a> go about making the next <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/15\/the-maryland-man-hoax-is-designed-to-criminalize-immigration-enforcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Maryland Man&rdquo;<\/a> out of the Minneapolis woman fatally shot after allegedly trying to ram an ICE agent with her vehicle, more details are emerging about the radical life and times of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/renee-good-wife-claimed-minneapolis-shooting-my-fault-video-amid-anti-ice-fury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Renee Nicole Good<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/08\/us-news\/renee-nicole-good-was-minneapolis-ice-watch-warrior-who-trained-to-resist-feds-before-shooting\/?utm_social_post_id=646450929&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_social_handle_id=17469289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a>, the 37-year-old woman was known as an anti-ICE &ldquo;warrior&rdquo; in a group called &ldquo;ICE Watch.&rdquo; The Post describes the resistance movement as a &ldquo;loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids&rdquo; in sanctuary city Minneapolis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, ICE Watch and radical groups like it have popped up around the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/ice-watch-programs-immigrants-how-to-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">emerging<\/a> during President Donald Trump&rsquo;s first term and exploding in this first year of a second term laser-focused on cleaning up America&rsquo;s illegal immigration mess.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;A Very Thorough Training&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>The Post reports that Good joined the Immigration &amp; Customs Enforcement resistance activists last year through her 6-year-old son&rsquo;s &ldquo;woke charter school.&rdquo; Southside Family Charter School is a liberal indoctrination factory described by its co-founder as &ldquo;unabashedly dedicated to social justice education,&rdquo; according to the Post.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Good and her &ldquo;wife&rdquo; Rebecca, 40, moved to Minneapolis last year and began getting involved in the local ICE Watch campaign, according to the publication.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[Renee Good] was trained against these ICE agents &mdash; what to do, what not to do, it&rsquo;s a very thorough training,&rdquo; a mother named Leesa, whose child attends Southside Family, told The Post during a vigil at the site of Wednesday&rsquo;s fatal shooting.<\/p>\n<p>ICE officers were conducting a targeted operation at the time. Video shows officers instructing the woman to get out of her vehicle, which was moving closer to the agents. At that point, Good&rsquo;s vehicle backed up before accelerating forward toward an ICE agent standing at the front of the vehicle. He fired his gun at the driver. Good was pronounced dead at the scene.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called the near-miss &ldquo;an act of domestic terrorism.&rdquo; She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/noem-alleges-woman-killed-ice-shooting-stalking-impeding-agents-all-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Good had been &ldquo;stalking and impeding&rdquo; the officer&rsquo;s &ldquo;lawful operations&rdquo; all day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots,&rdquo; the agency said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTOKIxNiSnL\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a>. The unnamed officer &ldquo;used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The officer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/ice-officer-fatally-shot-minnesota-woman-was-dragged-car-june-immigrat-rcna252992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> DHS, was injured after being dragged by a vehicle some 50 yards during an enforcement effort last June in Minneapolis. Agents were attempting to bring into custody Roberto Carlos Mu&ntilde;oz-Guatemala during a traffic stop. The Mexican national was described as a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-bass-has-bizarre-break-with-reality-declares-theres-zero-crime-in-la-nothing-even-close-to-a-crime-period\/\" title=\"Watch: Bass Has Bizarre Break with Reality, Declares There&#039;s Zero Crime in LA - Nothing &#039;Even Close to a Crime, Period&#039;\">serial criminal illegal alien<\/a>,&rdquo; a child sex offender &ldquo;who has been committing violent crimes in the U.S. for nearly 15 years.&rdquo; When Mu&ntilde;oz-Guatemala attempted to flee, the ICE officer&rsquo;s arm was inside the vehicle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which occurred in a suburban Minneapolis neighborhood, was caught on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tGWwKznwdXw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">camera<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Organize Actions&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Mu&ntilde;oz-Guatemala is one of thousands of criminal illegal immigrants groups like ICE Watch have attempted to protect from ICE arrest across the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Youth Leadership Council (NYSYLC), which <a href=\"https:\/\/career.cornell.edu\/resources\/new-york-state-youth-leadership-council-nysylc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bills itself<\/a> as &ldquo;the first <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >undocumented youth-led organization&#038;rdquo<\/a>; in the Empire State, promotes &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5568cf13e4b0580240daceee\/t\/6790568e436050739aef337b\/1737512591827\/HFZ-Cop-ICE-Watch-Training.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cop and ICE Watch&rdquo; training<\/a> on its website. It teaches what anti-ICE activists call the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysylc.org\/ice-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">S.A.L.U.T.E<\/a> method of monitoring activities, an acronym that stands for reporting on the <em>Size and Strength<\/em> of the enforcement operation, the <em>Activity and Action<\/em>, the <em>Location<\/em>, the <em>Uniforms<\/em> the officers are wearing, the <em>Time<\/em> and Date, and the <em>Equipment<\/em> the agents are using.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><em>PHOTO: 6ABC Philadelphia <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Activists report their findings through phone messaging apps such as Signal, &ldquo;an integral tool in activism against ICE across the country,&rdquo; Minnesota Public Radio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2025\/12\/05\/twin-cities-ice-watchers-keep-tabs-for-agents-in-their-neighborhoods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> in a story last month as DHS stepped up immigration law enforcement efforts in the Twin Cities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The chats, and the anti-ICE efforts in the city, are decentralized, based on blocks or neighborhoods or even apartment buildings. Many of these neighborhood chats were birthed during the unrest following George Floyd&rsquo;s killing by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, when police had largely disappeared from many parts of the city, and neighbors organized safety patrols,&rdquo; MPR&rsquo;s Jon Collins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2025\/12\/05\/twin-cities-ice-watchers-keep-tabs-for-agents-in-their-neighborhoods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in a glowing piece tracking ICE Watch rookie Lucia Webb&rsquo;s second day on duty. In the story, Webb complains that ICE agents pulled her over after she was following them and tracking their activities. Webb insisted that she could follow the officers after she was told she could be arrested. She told the liberal publication that she asked the ICE officers &ldquo;if they were embarrassed to be kidnapping people like &lsquo;Nazis.&rsquo;&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Webb is a plaintiff in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu-mn.org\/cases\/tincher-v-noem\/?document=Tincher-v-Noem-et-al-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lawsuit<\/a> filed by the far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Minnesota against federal immigration authorities, accusing ICE of violating constitutional rights.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Webb and her radical friends send their reconnaissance information to a tipline, which is used to call protesters to the scene of ICE arrests and &ldquo;organize actions like a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-professional-activists-sabotage-ice-arrests\/\" title=\"Here&#039;s How Professional ... Sabotage ... Arrests\">late-night noise demonstration&#038;rdquo<\/a>; at a hotel where ICE employees were said to be staying, according to MPR.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SCOTUS Plumhoff v. Rickard 2014<br \/>9-0 decision<br \/>Justice Alito writes:<br \/>&ldquo;It stands to reason that, if police officers are justified in firing at a suspect in order to end a severe threat to public safety, the officers need not stop shooting until the threat has ended.&rdquo;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dagen McDowell (@dagenmcdowell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dagenmcdowell\/status\/2009058544960856176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>&lsquo;Direct Action&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant &amp; Refugee Rights (ICIRR) runs a similar monitoring program called the <a href=\"https:\/\/icirr.quorum.us\/campaign\/ileyesonice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eyes on ICE Text Network<\/a>. The organization joined a chorus of leftists condemning ICE and the Trump administration for Good&rsquo;s death. Like most Democrat politicians trying to make political hay out of the incident, the ICIRR&rsquo;s comments were anything but measured.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today, ICE murdered Renee Nicole Good on the streets of Minneapolis. ICE and the MAGA\/Trump regime are pulling from the same playbook that they did in Illinois: bring violence to local neighborhoods, lie relentlessly, and kill community members,&rdquo; the group<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ICIRR\/posts\/today-ice-murdered-renee-nicole-good-on-the-streets-of-minneapolis-ice-and-the-m\/1323407759826223\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> accused<\/a> on its social media accounts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to nonprofit tracker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/illinois-coalition-for-immigrant-and-refugee-rights-icirr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">InfluenceWatch<\/a>, the ICIRR raked in more than $80.4 million in revenue in 2023, with more than $77 million in government grants. Yes, the taxpayer is paying for this seething leftist &ldquo;nonprofit.&rdquo; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The left loves to train people in what they call &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedirectactionmovement.com\/what-is-direct-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">direct action&rsquo;<\/a>, which almost always can be translated as lawbreaking. It&rsquo;s not a tactic that is good for our country and lawbreaking is not something that nonprofit groups should be encouraging or funding,&rdquo; said Parker Thayer, investigative researcher at Capital Research Center, which operates InfluenceWatch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Next George Floyd<\/h2>\n<p>Protests are one thing. But anti-ICE activists on numerous occasions have attempted to impede law enforcement operations, physically assaulting officers and ramming them with vehicles. DHS in November <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2025\/11\/18\/ice-and-cbp-officers-face-unprecedented-surge-vehicle-ramming-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> that there had been nearly 100 vehicle attacks against federal immigration law enforcement agents since Jan. 20, more than doubling the number of vehicular attacks during the same period the previous year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Liberals and their partners in the propaganda press have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/ice-shooting-reinforces-minnesotas-grim-role-as-trumps-target\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">painted<\/a> Good as a martyr in Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/01\/08\/jd-vance-promises-aggressive-immigration-enforcement\/88086884007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;aggressive&rdquo;<\/a> immigration enforcement campaign. They, of course, fail to note that the left&rsquo;s constant attacks on ICE and Border Patrol agents for enforcing the nation&rsquo;s immigration laws has spurred an explosion of violence against the federal law enforcement officers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are seeing the results of the Left&rsquo;s constant demonization of the men and women of law enforcement. Dangerous criminals &ndash; whether they be illegal aliens or U.S. citizens &ndash; are turning their vehicles into weapons to attack ICE and CBP,&rdquo;&nbsp;DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said last month<em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To the left and its power-hungry leaders, Renee Good is the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/12\/29\/the-lefts-top-25-lies-of-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;Maryland Man,&rdquo;<\/a> aka illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The accused human trafficker, MS-13 gang member and wife beater was characterized as a poor, hard-working &ldquo;migrant&rdquo; by a lying left and corporate media, even as the truth got in the way of that narrative.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More so, it appears the left is, fittingly, turning Good into the next George Floyd &mdash; the felon who had <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/08\/26\/new-documents-show-george-floyd-had-fatal-level-of-fentanyl-in-his-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fatal levels<\/a> of fentanyl in his system when he died in police custody. As &ldquo;social justice&rdquo; liberals lifted Floyd up as a martyr of &ldquo;police brutality,&rdquo; they went about tearing down cities like Minneapolis in 2020&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/trump-doj-probing-whether-blm-002519136.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJMXGjwrjvOxYJ_XrozHjfY8P9RrjLpFPw-BgoY-ghdl2j40e7DLZmKN_j_9jCtp_Zr75hrF1GAMMZz8UjIDfbY16hVlZzV5OLBvinp5VaU8340LWlwQ37Vri-_FZ7xqyvqS0c273AjXzq93mODSZWel1H32BrjFuckl9rhb-cc_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;summer of love&rdquo;<\/a> insurrection. &nbsp;It feels like were on the precipice of that disastrous time once again.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media portray Good as martyr; new details emerge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2532898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-09-at-12.41.36-AM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[70619,70617,70618,69661,70100],"class_list":["post-2532897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-activist-tactics-2","tag-civil-disobedience-2","tag-ice-arrests-2","tag-immigration-enforcement-2","tag-immigration-policy-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-09-at-12.41.36-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2532897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532901,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532897\/revisions\/2532901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2532898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}