Thousands pack lefty activist group Monarca’s anti-ICE training — where they’re urged to annoy agents ‘like a mosquito’
By Shane Galvin
Published Jan. 10, 2026
Updated Jan. 10, 2026, 7:48 p.m. ET
ROSEVILLE, Minn. — More than one thousand people crammed into a Minnesota church Saturday for “training” in how to deal with ICE in the wake of Renee Nicole Good’s fatal shooting — during which the radical leftist organizer urged participants to annoy the agents like “mosquitoes.”
Program sponsor Monarca trains so-called “upstander legal observers” to follow, track, report, and record Department of Homeland Security officers while they are in the midst of operations, and urged the mostly white, middle-aged and elderly attendees to attend protests with gas masks, sunglasses and phone chargers.
“And a pencil,” they said. “In Minnesota, bring a pencil; a pen will freeze.”
Speakers decried the ICE as a “white supremacist police force that has no oversight,” urging the crowd at Roseville Lutheran Church to be persistent in their confrontations.
Good, 37, who was shot and killed Jan. 7 in an encounter with an ICE agent, was part of a different leftist group, “ICE Watch.”
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