When Nekima Levy Armstrong took a seat in church Sunday, it wasn’t at her usual congregation. She had come to Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, where the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s local field office, she had learned, was also one of the pastors.
Roughly two dozen protesters had joined her to confront church leaders about pastor David Easterwood and his role with the ICE operation that has flooded the Twin Cities with federal agents, who for weeks have dragged people from their cars, stopped U.S. citizens, broken down doors and shot two people, killing one.
