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Minnesota Lawyer Defends Protest at Church Whose Pastor Is Top ICE Official

2026-01-21 News & Politics
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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak with activist, civil rights attorney and ordained minister Nekima Levy Armstrong about her role in a protest at a St. Paul church on Sunday, where one of the pastors, David Easterwood, also leads a local ICE field office in the Twin Cities area. "I believe that if someone professes to represent the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to preach it, that they should not be allowing ICE agents to drag people out of their homes," Levy Armstrong tells _Democracy Now!_ She spoke from an undisclosed location after Trump officials vowed to investigate and possibly arrest the demonstrators. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe

Top Comments (10)

@DennisBeckwith-m8o 2026-01-21

This is what’s wrong with the legal system! Protecting criminals over regular citizens! Ignore the fraud and crime. !

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@vanillatilla 2026-01-21

Karl Marx. “ Accuse your enemies of what you are doing as you do it to create confusion “

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@Ikereacts-80 2026-01-21

These people really need a dose of accountability.

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@richardurso3754 2026-01-21

These are all disgraceful people.

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@kennybelfast982 2026-01-21

If they disrupted a synagogue the response would be worse.

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@BazookaFranklin 2026-01-22

The dumbass got arrested today 😂❤️

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@rogerfontenot2610 2026-01-22

Don lemon will be sued into the poor house.

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@hipsmeow 2026-01-21

I would not want that position. I don’t care if they offered me $10,000 a day I wouldn’t want that blood shed on my conscious cause at the end of the day we all are humans and you wanna go home and you wanna feel at peace when you lay your head down to rest.

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@askintoomuch9959 2026-01-22

This moron got arrested 😂

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@umaikakudo 2026-01-23

So glad Nekima left this confession for the trial. She's such a brilliant lawyer.

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