A liberal activist who helped organize the disruptive storming of a MinnesotaICE church protests raked in more than $1 million in compensation from a tax-exempt anti-poverty nonprofit, according to financial records, as federal immigration enforcement ramps up across the state. The Minneapolis ICE protest organizer, Nekima Levy Armstrong, has been identified as a central figure behind the protest that targeted a house of worship amid heightened Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in Minnesota.
Nekima Armstrong, who describes herself on her personal website as a civil rights attorney and “scholar-activist,” played a key role in organizing the Minnesota ICE church protest that erupted inside Cities Church in St. Paul on Sunday. In the days leading up to the disruption, she claimed in a Facebook post that one of the church’s pastors held a leadership role within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an allegation that circulated widely among activists before demonstrators entered the Minneapolis sanctuary mid-service.
Nekima Levy Armstrong is a Minneapolis-based civil rights attorney, activist and ordained minister. On Sunday, she helped lead a protest at a Saint Paul church, where one of the pastors also leads a local ICE field office in the Twin Cities area…