Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday announced that Nekima Levy Armstrong has been arrested in connection with the disruption of services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement serves as a pastor.
The Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention called what happened “an unacceptable trauma,” saying the service was “forced to end prematurely” as protesters shouted “insults and accusations at youth, children, and families.”
The federal case against Sunday’s protesters would likely focus on the application of the FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act, which was signed into law in 1994 and, among other things, prohibits using force or threats, or physically obstructing people to stop them from exercising their First Amendment right to religious freedom, including at churches.
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