On the morning of January 18, 2026, amid escalating tensions over federal immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities, a group of approximately three dozen anti-ICE activists targeted Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. The demonstration was part of broader protests sparked by recent ICE operations, including the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer earlier that month. The activists, led by civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, aimed to confront the congrega

On January 7, 2026, federal ICE agents were in the thick of the Trump administration's massive immigration enforcement push in Minneapolis—over 2,000 agents deployed to root out illegal immigrants and fraud. In a southside residential neighborhood on Portland Avenue, one of their unmarked vehicles got stuck in the snow while wrapping up operations. As agents worked to free it, protesters gathered, blocking roads and creating chaos. That's when Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old