Attorney General Bondi Announced The FBI Just Cuffed The Minnesota Agitator Behind Church Invasion

The radical Left stormed a church in St Paul and terrorized congregants.

Now the ringleader is headed where she belongs.

And Attorney General Bondi just announced the FBI has now cuffed the Minnesota agitator behind church invasion.

FBI Arrests Nekima Levy Armstrong For Organizing Church Attack

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday that FBI and Homeland Security agents arrested civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong for her role organizing the January 19 attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Armstrong faces federal charges under the FACE Act for interfering with religious worship when she led a mob that stormed the church during Sunday services.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed Armstrong is charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a law that makes it a federal crime to disrupt worship services.

"Minutes ago at my direction, HSI and FBI agents executed an arrest in Minnesota. 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," Bondi wrote on X.

The Attorney General didn't mince words about what happens next.

"We will share more updates as they become available. Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP," Bondi declared.

Armstrong's website identifies her as a "scholar-activist" and civil rights lawyer.

What it doesn't mention is her track record of organizing violent disruptions targeting law enforcement and conservative institutions.

The church attack happened because Armstrong and her radical allies targeted one of the pastors who works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Video from inside the church showed activists screaming at families trying to worship while children cowered in the pews.

Armstrong continued harassing church members as recently as Wednesday, accusing the pastor of having a "conflict of interest" for working with ICE.

Biden Weaponized This Law Against Pro-Life Christians

The FACE Act was originally passed in 1994 by President Bill Clinton to protect both abortion clinics and religious worship from obstruction.

But under the Biden administration, the law became a weapon exclusively aimed at peaceful pro-life activists.

Biden's Department of Justice prosecuted dozens of Christians under the FACE Act while completely ignoring hundreds of violent attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers.

Elderly women in their 80s were dragged from their homes by SWAT teams and threatened with ten years in federal prison for praying outside abortion clinics.

Mark Houck became the most infamous case when Biden's FBI arrested him in front of his terrified children for a minor confrontation outside an abortion clinic.

The numbers tell the ugly story Biden's Justice Department doesn't want you to see.

Between 1994 and 2024, prosecutors used the FACE Act 205 times against pro-life activists but only six times against abortion activists.

Biden's Justice Department alone was responsible for more than a quarter of all FACE Act prosecutions against pro-life activists in history.

President Trump pardoned 23 pro-life advocates during his first week back in office, calling their imprisonment "ridiculous."

Now the law Biden weaponized against peaceful Christians is being used for its actual purpose — protecting religious worship from violent disruption.

Armstrong's Radical History Makes Her Perfect For This Arrest

This isn't Armstrong's first rodeo disrupting the peace and attacking institutions.

She previously served as president of the Minneapolis NAACP and ran for mayor of Minneapolis in 2017.

Armstrong has been a fixture at every major left-wing protest in the Twin Cities for over a decade, from Ferguson to George Floyd to attacking Target over dropping DEI programs.

But here's what should make your blood boil about this supposed civil rights champion.

Armstrong raked in over $1 million in six years running the Wayfinder Foundation, a Minneapolis nonprofit supposedly dedicated to fighting poverty.

Tax filings show that in 2024, Armstrong pulled down $215,726 in salary plus another $40,548 in benefits while the foundation gave out just $158,811 in grants.

Over six years running the nonprofit, Armstrong made $936,395 in salary plus $201,313 in benefits while the foundation disbursed only $700,052 in grants to the poor people it claimed to help.

The Wayfinder Foundation even received $20,000 from Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, which itself is mired in financial scandals.

Armstrong also praised cop killer Joanne Chesimard in a September Facebook post, calling her "a brave, wise, powerful, and revolutionary Black woman."

Chesimard was convicted of murdering New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in 1977 and escaped to Cuba where she lives in hiding.

This is the woman who decided she had the moral authority to storm a church and scream at Christians trying to worship.

The church attack came amid heightened tensions over ICE operations in the Twin Cities following the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, by an ICE agent on January 7.

Armstrong and her activists have been organizing daily protests against ICE enforcement in Minnesota, which Trump has called the largest immigration operation in U.S. history.

The Trump administration deployed over 3,000 federal immigration officers to Minnesota to crack down on massive welfare fraud schemes in the state's Somali immigrant community.

Democrats including Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have been encouraging protests and attacking ICE for enforcing immigration laws.

Frey told ICE to "get the f*** out of Minneapolis" after the Renee Good shooting.

Now those same Democrats are discovering that when you encourage mob rule, federal law enforcement has tools to restore order.

Armstrong faces serious federal charges that could result in significant prison time.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shared photos of Armstrong being arrested and announced she's also charged with conspiracy against rights under 18 U.S.C. § 241.

That charge makes it unlawful for two or more persons to agree to injure, threaten, or intimidate someone exercising constitutional rights.

Attorney General Bondi also announced the arrest of Chauntyll Louisa Allen, an elected St. Paul School Board member who helped organize the church attack.

The message from the Trump administration is crystal clear — if you attack a house of worship, you're going to face the full force of federal law enforcement.

Armstrong spent years building a career as a professional agitator while getting rich off nonprofits supposedly helping the poor.

She thought storming a church and terrorizing families would just be another day at the office.

Instead, she's learning that there's a new administration in Washington, D.C. that won't tolerate attacks on religious freedom.

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Sources:

• Anders Hagstrom, "Minnesota agitator arrested in wake of church invasion, Bondi says," Fox News, January 22, 2026.
• "Nekima Levy Armstrong," Wikipedia, January 22, 2026.
• Anders Hagstrom, "Far-left agitator who organized Minnesota church storming raked in over $1 million from nonprofit," Fox News, January 21, 2026.
• Michael Lee, "FACE Act law Biden DOJ used to pursue pro-life activists now sees script flipped," Fox News, January 20, 2026.
• Jerry Dunleavy, "What is the FACE Act? Federal charges for MN church protest could come by Sunday," Washington Examiner, January 21, 2026.
• Caroline Downey, "Trump Can Protect Christians With The Same Law Biden Used To Persecute Them," Daily Caller, January 20, 2026.