A “de-arrest primer” circulated by Minnesota ICE Watch — described as a protest collective tied to Minneapolis protester Renee Good — lays out tactics for interfering with arrests and physically disrupting law enforcement, according to reporting and excerpts of the document.
The manual, reposted on Instagram by MN ICE Watch, says it was published in spring 2024 and outlines “four tactics” for interfering with arresting officers — down to grip advice and suggestions for “pushing and pulling an officer” off an arrestee.
One passage instructs readers on body positioning: “Technically speaking for pushing off form you should have a low center of gravity and a wide base…”
Another advises: “For breaking a grip, try striking the grip,” while warning that touching an officer “can get construed as assault in court.”
The guide acknowledges the legal risk, but argues the choice to escalate is “always contextual,” claiming that even “a general pacified attitude can lead to greater harm” than acting decisively.
It also encourages tactics the document itself concedes “could be considered a crime,” including opening unlocked doors of law enforcement vehicles to let suspects out.
And it recommends crowd pressure—“totally surrounding” officers or blocking them and their vehicle while chanting “Let them go!” until law enforcement “cave[s] to the mounting pressure,” describing the tactic as emerging from “Palestine solidarity campus occupations.”
The manual’s closing rhetoric is the flashpoint: it likens each “de-arrest” to a “micro-intifada,” with a caption that says, “Each de-arrest is a ‘shaking off’… each one is a micro-intifada…”
The term “intifada,” the Anti-Defamation League notes in its explainer of related slogans, is tied to historic periods of violence and is widely understood — when “globalized” — as a call for indiscriminate violence against Israel and potentially Jews and Jewish institutions worldwide.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. It's confirmed that anti-ICE vehicle rammer Renee Good's organization "Minnesota ICE WATCH" explicitly trains their members to ASSAULT ICE and federal Border agents, on top of harassing and targeting their vehicles
"Micro-intifada" 🤯
"Break their grip"… pic.twitter.com/5Aj3UYRiS7
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 12, 2026
More over at The New York Post:
Minnesota ‘ICE Watch’ group shared ‘de-arresting’ manual comparing tactics for fighting cops to ‘a micro-intifada’ https://t.co/ygJ5vImdy6 pic.twitter.com/gnwkKkSvcW
— New York Post (@nypost) January 12, 2026
