On Sunday morning, leftists invaded the Cities Church in St. Paul, bringing worship services to a halt and terrorizing parishioners. We wrote about the disgraceful incident here and elsewhere. The invasion, which among other things was a criminal trespass under Minnesota law, was organized by Twin Cities activist Nekima Levy Armstrong and others. Disgraced former CNN talking head Don Lemon “reported” from inside the church and may have helped organize the invasion.
Armstrong is a classic left-wing grifter. She runs a nonprofit that exists mainly for the purpose of enriching her. She has gotten something like $1 million from the Walton family, while her purported nonprofit has done little.
Immediately after Sunday’s criminal trespass, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel announced an investigation. They haven’t wasted any time: Armstrong and a lellow leftist are already under arrest:
FBI and Homeland Security agents arrested Minneapolis civil rights activist Nekima Levy Armstrong and fellow protester Chauntyll Louisa Allen in connection with the disruption of a church service on Sunday.
Attorney General Pam Bondi in a post on X said Armstrong played a “key role in organizing” the interruption at Cities Church in St. Paul on Sunday by activists who determined one of the pastors is the acting director of the local ICE field office.
It makes no difference, of course, but is this true? I would have thought that being a minister at the Cities Church and being the director of the St. Paul ICE field office are both full-time jobs.
FBI Director Kash Patel said Armstrong and Allen’s arrests are tied to a violation of the federal FACE Act.
State authorities could of course prosecute the trespassers, but, being all Democrats, they won’t. That leaves the feds. The FACE Act clearly applies. It says, in relevant part:
Whoever–
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(b) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, … interferes with … any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship;
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shall be subject to the penalties provided…
Those penalties include imprisonment of up to one year.
I hope that Armstrong, Lemon and others are prosecuted under the FACE Act, which, as AG Bondi has pointed out, can have enhanced penalties under the Ku Klux Klan Act. Presumably those charges will have to be brought in St. Paul, however, and that makes convictions doubtful. We are entering an era of jury nullification, I fear, and I suspect convictions of left-wingers will be difficult to obtain in any anti-Trump jurisdiction.
