Hearings continued Thursday for people federally indicted in connection with the January anti-ICE protest at Cities Church in St. Paul.
Defendants and their supporters packed the St. Paul Federal Courthouse this week for hearings addressing more than five dozen motions filed in the case, including requests to have charges dismissed. Two more hearings are scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Nov. 9 and Nov. 10.
During the Jan. 18 protest at Cities Church, demonstrators chanted in opposition to a church pastor who at the time was a high-ranking ICE official. Prosecutors allege they engaged in “intimidation, threats, interference and physical obstruction.” All 38 defendants have pleaded not guilty to the charges…