00:00An activist who led an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service has been arrested.
00:09Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong in a post on X on Thursday.
00:16Protesters entered the city's church in St. Paul on Sunday.
00:20A local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement serves as a pastor there,
00:25and Nekima Levy Armstrong has called for him to resign.
00:27How can you be a pastor of a church, but overseeing ICE agents in the field?
00:36ICE! O! No!
00:37There have been almost non-stop demonstrations in response to the January 7th death of 37-year-old Renee Goode
00:43by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, along with the Trump administration's immigration crackdown nationwide.
00:49I am here to stand in solidarity with the people.
00:53Nekima Levy Armstrong is no stranger to activism in the Twin Cities area.
00:57She's a civil rights attorney who's helped lead local protests after high-profile police-involved killings of black Americans, including George Floyd.
01:05He died in 2020 after being pinned to the ground by Minneapolis police officers, which sparked massive protests.
01:11She's also the former president of the NAACP's Minneapolis branch.
01:16Vice President J.D. Vance addressed the arrest at an event in Ohio.
01:19They're scaring little kids who are there to worship God on a Sunday morning.
01:24Those people are going to be sent to prison so long as we have the power to do so.
01:29It's not immediately clear what charge or charges Levy Armstrong faces.
01:33So how dare somebody claim to be a pastor while overseeing evil?
01:38So how dare somebody claim to be a pastor?
01:48That's right.
01:49What do you think is help a fehran if you do so?
01:51What do you think is that?
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