The “ICE Watch” group at the center of the unruly demonstrations gripping Minneapolis urged supporters to “embrace militancy” and escalate their demands “by any means necessary.” Hours later, Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D.) also encouraged residents to resist ICE, accusing the agency of carrying out a “campaign of organized brutality.”

MN ICE Watch, which describes itself as an “autonomous collective documenting & resisting against ICE, police, & all colonial militarized regimes,” shared an Instagram post on Wednesday teaching agitators how to relay “information on police and/or fascist” activity at demonstrations.

“We within the belly of this imperial beast face a turning point,” the post read. “After seven full months during which our protests have utterly failed to slow the gears of the war machine, there is nothing left to do but escalate” (emphasis theirs). “The time is ripe to embrace militancy on the ground, both to keep ourselves safer, and as a demonstration of our commitment to the words ‘by any means necessary.'”

On Wednesday evening, Walz told residents to continue resisting ICE.

Agents are “just plain grabbing Minnesotans and shoving them into unmarked vans, kidnapping innocent people with no warning and no due process,” he said. “Let’s be very, very clear: This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it is a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.”

Walz’s speech and MN ICE Watch’s guide come as protests have indeed escalated in Minneapolis amid a surge of ICE agents. Just hours later, agitators clashed with law enforcement over an ICE-involved shooting. As an ICE agent attempted to arrest an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, he was ambushed by two other individuals wielding a broomstick and a shovel, according to a statement from DHS. The immigrant grabbed an implement and began attacking him as well—the ICE agent shot him in the leg in self-defense, DHS stated.

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