Renee Good Was in 'ICE Watch' Group

Renee Nicole Good, the Minnesota woman who was fatally shot by an ICE officer, belonged to a Minneapolis-based “ICE Watch” group that actively tracked immigration enforcement operations and trained activists to interfere with agents, including by blocking law enforcement vehicles.

ICE Watch chapters, which have cropped up in communities across the country in recent years, train activists to monitor ICE activity using purpose-built apps and alert allies who have been trained to flood an operation area and interfere with arrests being made.

An Instagram account identified as “MN Ice Watch” instructs to report the locations and appearances of ICE agents. The account has posted photos across Minneapolis of law-enforcement agents, vehicle license plate numbers, and ICE officers’ faces; the account generates information via anonymous reports and submissions from local activists.

On a tab titled “Education,” the account promotes information about how to “de-arrest” individuals who have been arrested by law-enforcement by “physically removing an arrestee from a law enforcement officer’s grips, opening the door of a car or pressuring law enforcement officers to release an arrestee.” The “de-arrest primer” goes on to describe the benefits of blocking police vehicles.

“If you don’t have a crowd asserting pressure there may be some interference charges that come with blocking a police vehicle that may be more easily handed down for only one or two people blocking a police vehicle, but in many cases these are misdemeanor offenses and catch and release,” the primer notes.

Good, whose affiliation with MN ICE Watch was first reported by the New York Post, was shot and killed on Wednesday by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. DHS sources confirmed her membership in the group to Fox News.

Videos of the now-viral shooting show Good operating an SUV parked perpendicularly to block a street where ICE operations were taking place. After several moments, Good drives forward as an ICE agent approaches her vehicle from the front. The officer opens fire as the vehicle approaches, firing once through the windshield and twice more through the driver’s side window.

DHS sources told Fox that Good had followed ICE agents to two separate locations before she was shot in what the Trump administration says was self-defense. Good was blocking the roadway to disrupt law enforcement at the time and Good was “stalking and impeding” agents all day prior to the shooting, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said at a Thursday press conference.

The tactics DHS says Good was employing appear to be in keeping with those advocated by the ICE Watch group she belonged to.

MN ICE Watch distributed pamphlets to the community last summer on the subjects of “Building a Midwest Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement”; “Stepping up: Ways your community can defend itself from the police”; and “How to get ready for a demonstration.” The group also distributed a field guide on the Minneapolis Police Department squad vehicle numbers. And, six days ago, the account posted a video of Malcolm X saying, “You don’t get freedom peacefully.”

In June 2025, the Minneapolis-based ICE Watch chapter organized a protest in support of Isabel Lopez, a resident who showed up to a Mexican restaurant after local activists reported online that it was being swarmed by Homeland Security and ICE agents. Law enforcement officials later confirmed that the federal presence was related to a criminal investigation, not an immigration enforcement operation; by that time, activists had already encouraged locals to show up at the restaurant to protest.

Lopez was accused of obstructing, attacking, and kicking federal ICE agents, and throwing a softball at a local sheriff’s deputy during the protest. Minneapolis ICE Watch called her a “crucial defender of [First Amendment] rights” and the rest of our inalienable human rights” at the time.

The Instagram account also recently promoted the “Stop ICE Plate Tracker,” just one of many ICE-tracker services that “catalogues vehicles identified in public spaces used in raids.” Although last year the Trump administration pressured Apple to remove from its App Store some of the most popular ICE-tracker apps, many are still available. A cursory search of tracking services after the ICE shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday shows how activists are using them to monitor officers.

ICEinmyarea.org has multiple listings for recently spotted ICE agents near Minneapolis. Near a Starbucks in Robbinsdale, users posted a photo of a police car and black SUV with the caption, “Agents emerged from black unmarked SUV and approached people in white SUV. Robbinsdale police were dispatched and successfully removed ICE agent from the scene.” In Eagen, users posted a location pin with the caption, “They were getting gas at the Holiday. Didn’t have a chance to get a picture. Two white sprinter vans. All wearing masks and full gear. Saw at least 6 people.” In the 24 hours after Good’s death, users posted twelve sightings of ICE agents in the area on ICEinmyarea.org.

The app F.I.R.E. operates an interactive map on which users have posted at least nine officer sightings in Minnesota over the past 24 hours at a Walmart and near a school, among other locations. There are community threads from Minnesota on Reddit that likewise pinpoint agents’ locations. Individuals who downloaded ICEBlock before it was taken off the App Store last year can still use its services and post ICE sightings.

A Minneapolis ICE Watch group on Facebook, which describes itself as an “Autonomous Collective Documenting & Resisting Against ICE, Police, And All Colonial Militarized Abuse,” has not been active since last year, but similarly encourages residents to report ICE activity in detail.

Good, a mother of three, learned of ICE Watch through her six-year-old son’s charter school community, the Post reported. Southside Family Charter School in South Minneapolis says in its mission statement that it involves “children in political and social activism, encouraging creative expression, offering a wide range of electives and advocating for children and families.”

The school integrates “social justice into every grade level, telling the stories of the people, not the people in power, and helping students understand history and their role in making the world a better place,” according to its website, and encourages students and families to accomplish social-justice projects together.