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OAN Staff Addie Davis
4:11 PM – Friday, February 27, 2026
Attorney General Pam Bondi of the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday the unsealing of an indictment that charges 30 more people who reportedly took part in the January 18th protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, disrupting the worship service.
“YOU CANNOT ATTACK A HOUSE OF WORSHIP. If you do so, you cannot hide from us—we will find you, arrest you, and prosecute you,” Bondi said in an X post on Friday.
“This Department of Justice STANDS for Christians and all Americans of faith,” she added.
Bondi noted that 25 of those individuals were arrested on Friday by federal agents, “with more to come throughout the day.”
This now brings the tally to 39 people facing charges of conspiracy against religious freedom and interfering with the right of religious freedom, according to National News.
Those previously charged include independent left-wing journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, as well as activist Nekima Levy Armstrong, the outlet reported.
Tyler O’Neil, senior editor at The Daily Signal, posted the official indictment to X on Friday.
On January 18th, a group of 40 unruly agitators entered the church “in a coordinated takeover-style attack and engaged in acts of oppression, intimidation, threats, interference, and physical obstruction,” the indictment alleges.
“Congregants fled the Church building out of fear for their safety,” the document continued. “Young children were left to wonder, as one child put it, if their parents were going to die.”
The anti-ICE protesters, who reportedly shouted slogans like “ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good,” were targeting Pastor David Easterwood, who allegedly also serves as the acting field director for a local ICE office.
I stand against what happened today in the Twin Cities and ask other leaders to do the same.
Targeting a church. Disrupting worship. Desecrating sacred space. That is wrong — full 🛑.
Religious liberty matters.
Houses of worship are not protest props. pic.twitter.com/IM9DDMqfvm
— Barry Moore for U.S. Senate (@BMooreSenate) January 19, 2026
37-year-old Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer on January 7th after refusing to cooperate with law enforcement and hitting the ICE agent with her car as she attempted to drive away, video footage shows. The week after the church protest, nurse Alex Pretti, 37, was also killed in another controversial shooting by ICE.
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