Protesters disrupt Minnesota church to look for pastor they said was ICE agent

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "If you got a head -- a leader in a church -- that is leading and orchestrating ICE raids, my God, what has the world come to?" Cullars-Doty said.
53% : " The website of St. Paul-based Cities Church lists David Easterwood as a pastor, and his personal information appears to match that of the David Easterwood identified in court filings as the acting director of the ICE St. Paul field office.
51% : Now they're targeting churches, too," the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency stated.
50% : A livestreamed video posted on the Facebook page of Black Lives Matter Minnesota, one of the protest's organizers, shows a group of people interrupting services at the Cities Church in St. Paul by chanting "ICE out" and "Justice for Renee Good.
49% : The U.S. Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparently serves as a pastor.
43% : The protesters allege that one of the church's pastors -- David Easterwood -- also leads the local ICE field office overseeing the operations that have involved violent tactics and illegal arrests.
43% : In a Jan. 5 court filing, Easterwood defended ICE's tactics in Minnesota such as swapping license plates and spraying protesters with chemical irritants.
40% : " The 37-year-old mother of three was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis earlier this month amid a surge in federal immigration enforcement activities.
40% : "When you think about the federal government unleashing barbaric ICE agents upon our community and all the harm that they have caused, to have someone serving as a pastor who oversees these ICE agents, is almost unfathomable to me," said Armstrong, who added she is an ordained reverend.
23% : " Nekima Levy Armstrong, who participated in the protest and leads the local grassroots civil rights organization Racial Justice Network, dismissed the potential DOJ investigation as a sham and a distraction from federal agents' actions in Minneapolis-St.

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