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The St. Paul Three: Anti-ICE Terrorists Now Facing Federal Felony Charges

Posted on | January 24, 2026 | No Comments

William Scott Kelly

Nakima Valdez Levy-Armstrong

Chauntyll Louisa Allen

Normal Americans — the kind of decent people who would never vote Democrat — were horrified last Sunday when video emerged of a “protest” mob storming a church in St. Paul, Minnesota:

The rationale of this “protest” was the idea, currently prevalent among Democrats, that it is morally wrong for Republicans to win elections and therefore, when Republicans are in office, obeying the law is optional.

Democrats never say this in so many words, of course. To express their beliefs as a clear syllogism would immediately expose the invalidity of their arguments, which is why they never debate anymore. Anyone who has watched Scott Jennings single-handedly dismantle leftists on CNN knows this — Democrats can’t win any kind of honest debate, which is why they end up shouting and shrieking and trying to silence opposition.

What happened at the Minnesota church was not a constitutionally protected exercise of free speech, as Samuel J. Abrams explains:

Recent events in Minnesota — where anti-ICE protesters interrupted a service at Cities Church in St. Paul, targeted pastor David Easterwood (who is apparently also an ICE official), then defended the disruption as an exercise of First Amendment rights — reflect a growing confusion about what the Constitution does and does not protect. Similar incidents have occurred in recent years, affecting churches, synagogues, and other religious services across the country. Whatever one thinks of the protesters’ underlying cause, the constitutional question here is not a close one.
“This is what the First Amendment is about,” said journalist Don Lemon, who entered the church with the protesters and defended their actions to a pastor who was asking them to leave. Organizers Nekima Levy Armstrong and Chauntyll Louisa Allen have since been arrested for allegedly violating the FACE Act, which prohibits using force, threats, or physical obstruction to interfere with religious services.
There is no First Amendment right to enter a house of worship and engage in conduct that effectively shuts down a religious service, even as part of a protest. Nor does anybody have the right to remain on private property after being asked by its owner or authorized representatives to leave.
The First Amendment offers its strongest protection to speech in traditional public forums — streets, sidewalks, and parks — while also protecting freedom of association, religious exercise, and freedom of conscience. A society committed to free expression depends not only on protecting speech, but on maintaining a clear delineation between protected speech, on the one hand, and unprotected civil or criminal conduct on the other.

You can read the whole thing. Don Lemon is typical of those in the media who, in becoming “Democratic operatives with bylines,” have embraced the radical “By Any Means Necessary” mentality of the modern Left. Whatever helps Democrats (or hurts Republicans) is good, and anything that hurts Democrats (or helps Republicans) is bad. There is no objective truth in their worldview, only partisan advantage, which is why they are such habitual liars. Those of us who are not Democrats can turn on the TV and observe half-a-dozen such lies in any hour-long segment on CNN (and as little as 15 minutes on what used to be called MSNBC), and the most outrageous element of the media’s pervasive bias is the fact that these partisan propagandists so obviously think they are our moral and intellectual superiors. Now, dear reader, scroll back up to the top of this post, gaze for a while at the mug shots of Don Lemon’s criminal accomplices and ask yourself: “Are these people superior to me?”

Attorney General Pam Bondi doesn’t seem to think so:

The fact that William Scott Kelly called this a “white supremacist” church is a huge clue about the kind of propaganda that is being deployed to mobilize these rioters against law enforcement. Kelly has claimed to be a combat veteran, but this has been disputed; while I cannot confirm reports that he was court-martialed for theft and dishonorably discharged, neither do I doubt those reports. “Bad causes attract bad people,” and Kelly appears to do nothing else except protest everywhere.

All of these culprits rationalized their crimes:

A BLM leader who serves on a school board, a woke TikToker, and a third alleged ringleader of an anti-ICE mob who stormed a Minnesota church during Sunday service have been arrested, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday. . . .
Armstrong allegedly led the raucous group, including Don Lemon, from the Racial Justice Network to storm the church and call out resident pastor David Eastwood, accusing him of moonlighting as the acting field office director for ICE in Minnesota.
A picture of Armstrong being led away in handcuffs was shared by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on X on Thursday morning.
“Religious freedom is the bedrock of the United States – there is no First Amendment right to obstruct someone from practicing their religion,” Sec. Noem said on X.
AG Bondi also confirmed that a second suspect, Chauntyll Louisa Allen, who bragged about organizing the protests, had been taken into custody in a separate X post.
Allen — a Black Lives Matter leader and member of the Saint Paul Public Schools Board of Education — had earlier compared herself to Jesus, saying she had been inspired by his cleansing of the temple. . . .
A spokesperson for the city’s Board of Education told The Post that the district “has been made aware of this incident and is following all applicable policies and procedures” but “does not comment on pending legal matters.”
Later Thursday afternoon, it was announced that an anti-ICE influencer, William Kelly, had also been arrested for his involvement in the church riots.
Kelly, who uses the handle “DaWokeFarmer” on TikTok, was pictured on X being taken into custody while wearing a beanie hat emblazoned with the words “F*ck Trump,” by Noem. . . .
Armstrong, Allen, and Kelly are being charged with “conspiracy against rights,” which makes it a federal crime to intimidate someone in the free exercise of their rights as secured by the US Constitution.

The “Racial Justice Network” decided that this was a “white supremacist church” and why? Because the ACLU filed a lawsuit (Hussen v. Noem) against ICE and named as one of the defendants David Easterwood who, besides a pastor at this church, was employed as acting director of the local ICE office. In other words, the ACLU “doxxed” him, and that’s why this church got targeted even though Easterwood wasn’t even at the church at the time of the “protest.” Once radicals decide that it’s wrong to enforce the law, next they believe that law-enforcement officials are villains, and when they act on those perverse beliefs, bad things happen.



 

Category: Crime, Immigration, Minnesota

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