Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Thursday that a lawyer who was said to have played a major part in organizing a viral church protest in Minnesota has been arrested.
“Minutes ago at my direction, [Homeland Security Investigations] and [FBI] agents carried out an arrest in Minnesota,” Bondi wrote on X on Thursday morning.
She named the lawyer, Nekima Levy Armstrong, as the person arrested over the protest, which gained a lot of attention because of Don Lemon’s involvement.
Lemon recorded the protesters and even entered the church, which led President Donald Trump to suggest there might be legal actions taken.
“So far, we have arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota,” Bondi wrote.
“We will share more updates as they become available. Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP.”
The president called the protesters who interrupted the church service “insurrectionists” in a post on Truth Social.
“Just watched footage of the Church Raid in Minnesota by the agitators and insurrectionists.
These people are professionals! No person acts the way they act. They are highly trained to scream, rant, and rave, like lunatics, in a certain manner, just like they are doing,” he wrote.
The DOJ had already started looking into the disruption of services at Cities Church in St. Paul.
Protesters claimed that a pastor at the church is also an ICE official.
The protest was part of a series of demonstrations in the state against ICE after an agent shot and killed 37-year-old mother Renee Good earlier this month.
Footage from the scene shows Good partially blocking a roadway while agents told her to get out of the vehicle.
Good eventually began moving her car, and an ICE agent fired several shots.
ICE officials have stated that Good used her vehicle as a weapon and the agent acted in self-defense.
Local officials like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) have disagreed with this account and called for ICE to leave the city.
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