(KSTP)–A local independent journalist who was present during an anti-ICE protest that interrupted a St. Paul church service has filed a motion to dismiss criminal charges against her.
Georgia Fort is one of 39 defendants charged in connection with the Jan. 18 demonstration at Cities Church during the height of federal immigration agents’ occupation of the Twin Cities.
Activist Nekima Levy Armstrong organized the takeover because one of the congregation’s pastors, David Easterwood, was the acting director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s St. Paul field office…