The ringleader of the mob that assaulted the Sunday morning service at St. Paul’s Cities Church yesterday has outed herself. There is no mystery. She has self-identified. Her name is Nekima Levy Armstrong. The video below shows the mob in action.
BREAKING: Anti-ICE mob storms church in St. Paul, MN and shuts service down pic.twitter.com/PgYkWTuO3g
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 18, 2026
More below in a video that refers to the participation of Ms. Armstrong in the riot.
Shocking footage from Cities Church in Minneapolis this morning (an SBC church) where an anti-ICE mob stormed the service and disrupted their worship, alleging one of the church’s lead pastors is an ICE agent. pic.twitter.com/hS2FhzrFc4
— Center for Baptist Leadership (@BaptistLeaders) January 18, 2026
In her pinned Facebook post (screenshot below), Ms. Armstrong not only identifies herself with reference to “our demonstration,” she names both individuals and groups who served as fellow organizers of the riot inside Cities Church. The named groups include Black Lives Matter Minnesota, Black Lives Matter Twin Cities, and the Racial Justice Network. Ms. Armstrong is herself the leader of the Racial Justice Network.
She describes herself as an award-winning attorney, scholar activist, past president of the Minneapolis NAACP, and former law professor at the University of St. Thomas Law School in Minneapolis. I overlapped with her when I taught as an adjunct law professot at the law school while I was also working full-time as senior vice president of TCF National Bank Minnesota and writing for Power Line. Ms. Armstrong left St. Thomas in 2016 to become a full-time “freedom fighter.”
Observers think that Ms. Armstrong’s involvement in the disruption of the church service yesterday may have constituted illegal misconduct. One criminal law that seems right on the money is 18 U.S.C. § 241.
The involvement of Black Lives Matter Minnesota and Black Lives Twin Cities is of particular interest. It takes us back to the summer of Saint George Floyd, when Minnesota residents came to town from from all over the state to participate in the torching of the Twin Cities. Rioters wanted to get in on the action while the getting was good. I wrote about one of the 2020 prosecutions in the City Journal column “Minnesota madness.”
In that City Journal column I wrote that it was “unlikely that things will change anytime soon for the Twin Cities as long as current leadership remains in control. The relevant political authority is held by ‘progressive’ Democrats, from [Minnesota Governor Tim] Walz and [Minneapolis Mayor Jacob] Frey to [Minnesota] Attorney General Keith Ellison…” As the Talking Heads song goes, “same as it ever was.” One can only hope that justice will be administered by federal authorities to those reponsible for the Cities Church riot of 2026.
