Anti-ICE mob storms Minnesota church over pastor's alleged ties to immigration enforcement

A mob of anti-ICE agitators stormed a religion Sunday successful St. Paul, Minnesota, interrupting a worship work aft protesters claimed a pastor wrong was affiliated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Video shows agitators chanting "Justice for Renee Good" wrong the sanctuary astatine Cities Church arsenic the work began, raising concerns among instrumentality enforcement and spiritual leaders astir protesters targeting houses of worship amid escalating anti-ICE demonstrations crossed the Twin Cities.

In 1 video circulating online, agitators tin beryllium heard chanting, "Justice for Renee Good," and "Who needs justice, we request justice," arsenic they stood wrong the religion during the service.

In different clip, the idiosyncratic filming says demonstrators positioned themselves successful the mediate of the sanctuary arsenic the pastor was speaking. The idiosyncratic filming past described the disruption arsenic a "clandestine mission" and claimed agitators had conscionable learned 1 of the pastors astatine the religion was connected to ICE.

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Anti-ICE protesters stormed a St. Paul religion mid-service implicit alleged ICE ties, prompting a DOJ civilian rights probe and crisp disapproval from DHS. (Google Maps)

Cities Church lists 8 pastors of varying roles, including David Easterwood, who shares the aforesaid sanction arsenic the acting manager of ICE’s St. Paul tract office.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to ICE to verify whether the 2 individuals are the aforesaid person.

ICE shared 1 of the videos of the protestation wrong the religion that circulated wide connected societal media Sunday.

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Community members face national agents aft an migration raid that resulted successful detentions and followed the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good successful Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jan. 13, 2026. (Tim Evans/Reuters)

"Agitators aren’t conscionable targeting our officers. Now they’re targeting churches, too," DHS said successful the post. "They're going from edifice to hotel, religion to church, hunting for national instrumentality enforcement who are risking their lives to support Americans."

DHS past called retired Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, saying they are liable for "whipping these mobs into a frenzy and past allowing them to tally rampant."

"We won’t beryllium deterred," DHS said. "ICE isn’t going anywhere."

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The Department of Justice has opened an probe into the religion protestation to find whether civilian rights laws were violated.

"The @CivilRights is investigating the imaginable violations of the national FACE Act by these radical desecrating a location of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said.

Frey has defended the protests, pushing backmost connected national officials who person described the demonstrations arsenic unsafe oregon lawless and rejecting claims that authorities and section leaders are liable for fueling unrest.

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Appearing connected CBS’ Face the Nation connected Sunday, Frey rejected the Trump administration’s characterization of the migration crackdown successful Minnesota, arguing the surge of national agents has made residents consciousness targeted alternatively than protected.

"This is not astir safety. What this is astir is coming into our metropolis by the thousands and terrorizing radical simply due to the fact that they're Latino oregon Somali," Frey said. "People successful Minneapolis are speaking up. They're speaking up peacefully. They're lasting up for their neighbors. And this is not conscionable astir resisting Trump. This is astir loving and caring for the radical that telephone this metropolis home. And it's been inspiring."