Who’s Funding the Aggressive Anti-ICE Tactics Used by Activists Like Renee Nicole Good?
Renee Nicole Good, the activist shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis last week after the vehicle she was operating made contact with the agent, appears to have been following aggressive tactics promoted by the leftist-funded organizing group Defend the 612.
Good, 37, had joined ICE Watch, a loose network of activists tracking and aiming to disrupt ICE activities, after discovering the network through her son’s charter school, the New York Post reported.
“MN ICE Watch,” an Instagram page, shared screenshots from a “de-arrest” primer, which gives agitators advice on how to prevent law enforcement officers from taking someone into custody.
The primer also appears on a list of “MN Community Response Resources” published by Defend the 612, a group that organizes “ICE Watch” activities. The resources page also recommends a tactic of “following ICE vehicles while honking and blowing on whistles when they are sighted,” aiming to create “traffic jams and slowdowns.”
While the ICE Watch groups appear to be loosely organized, some of the Left’s dark money nonprofits appear to have bankrolled a nonprofit that has organized a fundraiser for Defend the 612.
“Interfering with federal law enforcement is a crime,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told The Daily Signal in a statement Monday. “Anyone who interferes with law enforcement—thus committing a crime—will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”
Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, described Good as an agitator and claimed that new evidence shows her “STALKING and IMPEDING a law enforcement operation over the course of the morning” of her........
