The Minnesota ICE Watch group that Renee Good was part of has been exposed for sharing a “de-arrest primer” manual that teaches its members and supporters how to physically interfere with law enforcement during arrests.
The guide, posted on their Instagram account in June, states that every de-arrest is a “micro-intifada,” and provides step-by-step advice on confronting and assaulting officers.
Minnesota ICE Watch, described as a “loose collective of agitators,” focuses on documenting and resisting federal immigration enforcement, including ICE agents. The group operates under the banner of an “autonomous collective documenting & resisting against ICE, police, & all colonial militarized regimes,” as stated on their Instagram profile.
Good, a 37-year-old member of the group, was fatally shot by an ICE agent on January 7, while attempting to mow him down with her vehicle.
According to a report from the New York Post, neighbors say Good attended regular meetings and received “thorough training” from ICE Watch.
The Post reports:
The manual — which says on the front cover it was published in the spring of 2024 — outlines four tactics for interfering with arresting officers, such as the best kind of grip to use while yanking someone in custody out of their hands, or even suggestions on “pushing and pulling an officer” off of an arrestee.
“Technically speaking for pushing off form you should have a low center of gravity and a wide base and push up explosive power with your head up at all times if possible,” the instruction guide reads.
“For breaking a grip, try striking the grip,” the manual advises while warning that making physical contact with a law enforcement officer “can get construed as assault in court.”
However, it rationalizes the risk associated with “striking” an arresting officer as “always contextual,” claiming, “an arrest or even a general pacified attitude can lead to greater harm than not taking the risk and acting decisively when you see the repression take place.”
Tactic 3 encourages readers to open unlocked doors of law enforcement vehicles containing suspects to let them out, a move it acknowledges “could be considered a crime.”
The fourth and final tactic involves “pressuring” cops to simply release individuals they’ve taken into custody, “totally surrounding” the officers, “or otherwise blocking them and/or their vehicle and chanting ‘Let them go!’ until the [law enforcement officers] cave to the mounting pressure.”
The manual claims that “being arrested can have drastic negative life altering affects [sic], especially for targeted populations like people who aren’t white, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and certain radicals.”
“It follows then that reversing an arrest can be well worth the risks involved.”
“Each de-arrest is a ‘shaking off’ which is to say each one is a micro-intifada which can spread and inspire others until we may finally shake off this noxious ruling order all together,” the manual concludes.
According to DHS, Good attempted to “weaponize” her vehicle by trying to ram into agents, prompting one officer to fire three “defensive shots” in fear for his life and the safety of others.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem went even further and labeled Good’s actions as an act of “domestic terrorism” and defended the agent’s response as justified.
The shooting sparked massive protests in Minneapolis and beyond.
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