Socialist groups chant 'Killer Kristi' while escalating nationwide anti-ICE protests

NEW YORK – Socialist and communist protestation groups ramped up their coordinated demonstrations successful bluish cities Thursday, escalating their anti-government messaging and vilifying Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem aft the fatal shooting of a pistillate successful Minneapolis.

The groups, including the Democratic Socialists of America, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and The People’s Forum, rallied their members successful New York City, Chicago and elsewhere, portion Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a self-described communist group, activated its members successful cities from New Orleans to Minneapolis. The mobilization spawned demonstrations successful aggregate different cities, including Burlington, Vt., Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta and Washington, D.C.

"Killer Kristi!" protesters chanted astatine a objection successful downtown Manhattan wherever Noem announced the apprehension of 54 alleged Dominican Trinitarios pack members.

"Go to hell, Kristi Noem!" they yelled.

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A young self-declared communist holds up her motion astatine an anti-ICE rally astatine Foley Square successful New York City connected Jan. 8, 2026. (Nikolas Lanum/Fox News Digital)

Other groups, intimately aligned with the Democratic Party, including Indivisible and 50501, supported anti-ICE protests astir the nation. By precocious Thursday, the Council connected American-Islamic Relations, a nonprofit that has led anti-Israel protests for years, joined the cacophony of anti-ICE denouncements, declaring, "This is authorities violence." 

In New York, the assemblage of astir 300 radical carried signs reading, "ICE Cold Killers," and "ICE is Trump’s Gestapo." 

The demonstrations followed the fatal shooting of anti-ICE protester Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) serviceman during an ICE enforcement cognition successful South Minneapolis connected Wednesday. Demonstrators accused the ICE cause of "cold-blooded murder," portion Trump medication officials said helium acted successful self-defense aft the pistillate drove her Honda Pilot SUV astatine him, threatening his life.

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Extremism experts are informing that the highly coordinated and choreographed demonstrations hazard inciting unit against instrumentality enforcement and whitethorn beryllium designed to manufacture the quality of wide chaos portion advancing a coherent ideological docket that exploits home flashpoints to destabilize the country.

"I conscionable privation the mean American realized that determination is simply a web of far-left agitators successful America who are Marxist-Leninists, socialists, Maoists and adjacent North Korean apologists," Stu Smith, a researcher astatine the Manhattan Institute with an expertise connected home terrorism, told Fox News Digital.

"As these ideologues say, the contented is ne'er the issue. It’s each astir the revolution. After this unspeakable concern successful Minneapolis, they utilized societal media and their networks to mobilize and get connected the streets to wounded America," said Smith.

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At Foley Square successful New York, adjacent section ICE offices, leaders from The People’s Forum, a nonprofit activistic hub that has received backing from a tech billionaire, Neville Roy Singham, with adjacent ties to the Chinese Communist Party, stage-managed astir of the day's protest. 

They arrived astatine 8:41 a.m., conscionable minutes earlier the 9 a.m. start, hauling 2 buying carts afloat of bullhorns and pre-made black-and-white signs, printed with the message, "JUSTICE FOR RENEE NICOLE GOOD," and a photograph of Good, with "PARTY FOR SOCIALISM AND LIBERATION" crossed the bottom. 

"Want a sign?" 1 of the organizers from the Party for Socialism and Liberation asked demonstrators, standing, galore of them with their hands successful their pockets.

One antheral asked for a power of signs: "Can I person the motion that says, ‘ICE OUT OF OUR COMMUNITY’?" 

Beyond New York, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization led raucous protests adjacent the tract of the sidesplitting soon aft quality dispersed of the shooting.

According to interior FBI documents made public, Freedom Road Socialist Organization has been the taxable of national scrutiny. In 2015, the FBI opened an probe into the radical to measure imaginable transgression activity. While nary charges were filed, interior FBI documents described the enactment arsenic a "revolutionary socialist and Marxist-Leninist organization" and cited alleged ties to overseas Marxist-Leninist extremist groups, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Communist Party of the Philippines, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known arsenic FARC.

At the New York City demonstration, protesters spoke bluntly astir their ideological orientation.  

"I personally place arsenic a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, pursuing the teachings of [former communist China leader] Mao Zedong," said demonstrator Tye Burrus, 18, who held a handmade motion depicting a hammer and sickle smashing a elephantine crystal cube. 

Burrus, a subordinate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation who self-identifies arsenic transgender, said losing religion successful the Democrats and ne'er having religion successful the Republicans led to embracing communism.

​​"So present I americium a communist," Burrus said.

One demonstrator sold copies of the "Workers Vanguard," which calls itself a "Marxist Newspaper" of the Spartacist League, the U.S. section of the International Communist League.

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"One dollar please," she said, circulating successful the crowd.

Another protester handed retired copies of a newspaper, "The Revolution," which urges readers to "join the combat for socialist revolution." The paper, which identifies itself arsenic a merchandise of the Revolutionary Internationalist Youth and its section section astatine the City University of New York, notes that it advocates "the programme of Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky."

Yet different demonstrator, this 1 from the City University of New York pupil group, held a motion advocating "FOR A REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS PARTY," a labour enactment inspired by Soviet communist person Leon Trotsky. The bottommost of the motion said, "REVOLUTIONARY INTERNATIONALIST YOUTH." 

Members of Refuse Fascism, a radical that describes itself arsenic "anti-fascist," moved done the crowd, handing retired slick, freshly printed pamphlets titled "The People’s Indictment of Donald Trump," outlining what organizers described arsenic a past of alleged law violations by Trump. Online, it announced plans for a protestation astatine the White House connected Saturday astatine 1 p.m., posting online: "Trump’s ICE Gestapo commits cold-blooded murder."

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A protester astatine Foley Square holds up a "F--k Fascism" motion for the camera.  (Nikolas Lanum/Fox News Digital)

Members of the Democratic Socialists of America, whose endorsed campaigner Zohran Mamdani precocious won New York City’s mayoral election, attended the protestation wearing reddish hats bearing the group’s "DSA" initials. Protest organizers declined requests for comment.

On X, Mamdani echoed the talking points of the protesters, alleging that "an ICE cause murdered a pistillate successful Minneapolis — lone the latest fearfulness successful a twelvemonth afloat of cruelty." 

Among the demonstrators, symbols from antithetic movements appeared broadside by side. One pistillate carried a emblem for Palestine, portion a antheral banging a cowbell hung a emblem of communist Cuba connected his backpack.

As the demonstrators circled the sidewalk extracurricular the World Trade Center, with Noem inside, Manolo De Los Santos, a laminitis of The People's Forum and a regular protestation organizer, told the assemblage that demonstrators weren’t allowed inside. 

He shouted into a bullhorn, "We are not going anywhere." 

On the spot, The People’s Forum posted De Los Santos’s defiant connection connected its X account: "NOW. MASSIVE PICKET AT WORLD TRADE CENTER."

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But not for long.

Soon after, the staged protestation ended, the activists shuffled distant and organizers from The People’s Forum bundled up their megaphones and rolled distant with their market carts filled with signs, neatly stacked and acceptable for usage different day.