Pittsburgh Officials Caught Promoting Civil Disobedience Training After Renee Good ICE Shooting

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Left-wing activists have been waging war against ICE agents enforcing President Trump's immigration crackdown.

One Minnesota woman paid with her life after she tried to run over a federal agent during an operation.

And Pittsburgh officials got caught red-handed promoting the exact training that left one woman dead.

Pittsburgh Officials Promote Civil Disobedience Training After ICE Shooting Minneapolis

The Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations sparked outrage when it promoted organized resistance training designed to obstruct federal law enforcement.

A now-deleted post on X advertised an event titled "Rebirthing Civil Disobedience, Part II" scheduled for January 13 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.

The promotional flyer featured images of protesters confronting law enforcement and described the workshop as "tactical training in the art of civil disobedience."

The event was co-hosted by Pittsburgh Democratic Socialists of America and 50501 Pittsburgh — radical leftist groups fighting what they call "fascist movements" in the Trump Administration.

Featured speaker Mike Healey would train attendees to "build your CD muscle" in tactics designed to interfere with federal operations.

The flyer promised participants would learn from "a practitioner and trainer with extensive experience" in obstructing law enforcement.

This wasn't about peaceful protest.

This was training activists how to physically block federal agents from doing their jobs.

Renee Good ICE Shooting: Deadly Results of Activist Training

Just days before Pittsburgh promoted this workshop, the consequences of this training played out in Minneapolis with fatal results.

Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old member of ICE Watch, a radical group that monitors and disrupts ICE operations.

On January 7, Good used her SUV to block ICE agents during a massive federal operation in south Minneapolis.

Video footage shows Good deliberately positioning her vehicle to obstruct agents as they attempted to conduct enforcement operations.

When ICE agent Jonathan Ross approached, Good accelerated her SUV in his direction.

Ross fired three shots in self-defense, killing Good as she attempted to flee after nearly running him over.

President Trump described exactly what happened on Truth Social.

"The woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense," Trump wrote.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem called Good's actions what they were — "an act of domestic terrorism."

Good had been "stalking, impeding, and blocking" ICE officers for hours before the fatal confrontation.

ICE Watch Documents Expose Renee Nicole Good's Radical Training

Good didn't wake up one day and decide to attack ICE agents.

She was trained for it.

Documents from Good's son's school board — where she served as a member — linked directly to ICE monitoring guides and civil disobedience training materials.

The school directed parents to workshops teaching tactics for disrupting federal operations.

Good's wife Rebecca Brown Good was captured on video immediately after the shooting, saying "I made her come down here. It's my fault."

Critics made the connection immediately when they saw Pittsburgh's promotion of the workshop.

"This is the kind of training that Renee had and it cost her her life," one X user wrote in response to the Pittsburgh Commission post.

"It is pathetic and embarrassing that an official city account would promote this nonsense."

Pittsburgh DSA and City Officials Scramble After Minneapolis ICE Shooting

Christopher J. Soult, deputy director of the Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations, scrambled to distance the agency after the backlash exploded.

"No City money was spent on this event," Soult insisted.

"We did not sponsor this event. We did not give any free media to this event."

That's a lie and everyone knows it.

When a government agency uses its official social media accounts to promote an event, that IS giving it free media.

Soult tried to spin the workshop as teaching protesters "how to work safely, effectively and non-violently."

"'Non-violence' is implied by 'civil' disobedience," Soult claimed.

Tell that to ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who had to shoot a woman in self-defense after she tried to run him over.

Tell that to the ICE agents in Minneapolis who've been stalked and blocked for hours by activists trained in these exact tactics.

The Democratic Socialists of America weren't shy about what they were teaching.

Their Facebook announcement promised "tactical training in the art of civil disobedience, grounded in real-world experience and historical context."

"Whether you are new to this work or looking to deepen your skills, this training is designed to help you grow more confident, effective, and prepared," the DSA wrote.

Prepared for what, exactly?

Prepared to obstruct federal agents trying to deport illegal aliens?

That's not peaceful protest — that's domestic terrorism.

Trump, Kristi Noem Fight Domestic Terrorism After ICE Agent Shooting

Since Charlie Kirk's assassination on September 10, 2025, President Trump has taken the gloves off in fighting left-wing extremism.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are investigating the organized activist networks coordinating these attacks on federal agents.

Trump designated multiple groups as terrorist organizations, giving law enforcement new tools to dismantle these networks.

At least six federal prosecutors in Minneapolis resigned rather than investigate Good's radical connections and the groups that trained her to obstruct ICE.

That tells you everything about where their loyalties lie.

Meanwhile, radical Democrats in Congress introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary Noem for having the audacity to call Good's actions what they were — terrorism.

The effort gathered more than 70 signatures from House Democrats who think blocking ICE agents is heroic resistance.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz even proclaimed January 9 as "Renee Good Day," celebrating a woman who tried to run over a federal agent.

These are the people defending the activists who attack ICE.

How Many More Minneapolis Protests Before Democrats Stop ICE Attacks?

Left-wing groups train activists to physically obstruct federal law enforcement.

Government agencies like Pittsburgh's Commission on Human Relations promote that training on official platforms.

Activists use those tactics to block ICE agents from enforcing immigration law.

When agents defend themselves, Democrats scream brutality and impeach the officials who back them up.

Good's death was the ninth time since September that ICE agents opened fire during the Trump Administration's immigration enforcement operations.

Nine times that agents faced violent resistance from activists trained in these tactics.

Trump put it plainly on Truth Social.

"The reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis," Trump stated.

Now Pittsburgh just got caught promoting more of that training.

The same training that cost Renee Nicole Good her life when she tried to run over an ICE agent.

How many more activists need to die before Democrats stop encouraging them to attack federal agents?


Sources:

  • Rachel del Guidice, "Pittsburgh government department promotes 'tactical' civil disobedience training for residents," Fox News, January 16, 2026.
  • Hudson Crozier, "City Agency Promotes 'Art Of Civil Disobedience' Class Hosted By Socialists, Anti-Trump Activists," Daily Caller, January 12, 2026.
  • Casey Tolan, Rob Kuznia, Isabelle Chapman, "New documents shed light on Renee Good's ties to ICE monitoring efforts in Minneapolis," CNN, January 13, 2026.
  • "Killing of Renee Good," Wikipedia, January 16, 2026.
  • Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, "Renee Good's wife says fatal Minneapolis ICE shooting was her fault," Fox News, January 2026.