Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote, “A second arrest has been made at my direction. Chauntyll Louisa Allen has been taken into custody. More to come. WE WILL PROTECT OUR HOUSES OF WORSHIP.”
Multiple arrests were made on Thursday in connection with the storming of a church in St Paul, Minnesota, including Chauntyll Louisa Allen, a member of the city’s school board. Also arrested was organizer Nekima Levy Armstrong.
Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote, "A second arrest has been made at my direction. Chauntyll Louisa Allen has been taken into custody. More to come. WE WILL PROTECT OUR HOUSES OF WORSHIP."
https://twitter.com/AGPamBondi/status/2014349963132543319?s=20
Allen has been a member of the St Paul School Board since January 2020. She is listed as being the chair of the board’s "Afrocentric School/Program Work Group," and a member of the Sustainability Committee and the Equity Committee. She is also the leader of Black Lives Matter Twin Cities.
FBI Director Kash Patel said that Allen has been charged with an alleged violation of the FACE Act alongside Armstrong. The FACE Act, in addition to protecting abortion clinics, prohibits obstructing, injuring, or intimidating people who are exercising their First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of worship.
https://twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/2014358587900878862?s=20
Pam Bondi wrote in regards to the arrest of Armstrong, "Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP." Armstrong is a a civil rights lawyer and former president of the Minneapolis NAACP, and told ex-CNN host Don Lemon of the incident, "This is Operation Pull Up," adding that it was "more of a clandestine operation. We show up somewhere that is a key location. They don't expect us to come there. We disrupt business as usual. So that's what we're about to go do right now."
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