Minnesota AG Ellison says anti-ICE protesters who stormed church didn't violate FACE Act
WASHINGTON (TNND) — Minnesota Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison rejects remarks from the Department of Justice that the protesters who stormed a church over the weekend are in violation of the FACE Act.
Over the weekend, a group of anti-ICE protesters stormed St. Paul's Cities Church during a morning service.
The protesters accused the church’s pastor, David Eastwood, of being the acting ICE field office director in Minnesota.
As a result of the protest, officials at the DOJ said that the protesters may have violated the FACE Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act.
Former CNN host Don Lemon was also at the church storming and he was put “on notice” by the Trump administration.
Ellison went on Lemon’s YouTube show and said the FACE Act is only for reproductive rights.
"And the FACE Act, by the way, is designed to protect the rights of people seeking reproductive rights... so that people for a religious reason cannot just use religion to break into women's reproductive health centers," Ellison said, according to Fox News.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, Harmeet Dhillon said on X that a house of worship is not a forum for protest.
The FACE Act makes it a federal crime to "injure, intimidate, or interfere" someone trying to get an abortion or someone practicing their right to worship.
