By Muri Assunção
New York Daily News
Nekima Levy Armstrong, the Minneapolis civil rights advocate who led a protest at a church in St. Paul on Sunday, has been arrested. Attorney General Pam Bondi said on social media Thursday.
“Minutes ago at my direction, [Homeland Security and FBI ] agents executed an arrest in Minnesota,” Bondi posted on X around 9:30 a.m. ET. “So far, we have arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.”
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Just before 10 a.m., Bondi announced a second arrest of a person involved in Sunday’s demonstration.
“Chauntyll Louisa Allen has been taken into custody,” Bondi wrote. “We will protect our houses of worship,” she added in all caps, followed by a praying-hands emoji.
Allen is an elected member of the St. Paul School Board and one of the founders of Black Lives Matter St. Paul.
In a post on X following reports of the investigation into Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, AG Pam Bondi said: “A reminder to all those in Minnesota: No one is above the law”
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