Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Federal prosecutors are investigating anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters who allegedly disrupted a church service in St. Paul on Sunday.
Uncorroborated videos of the incident published online show a group of protesters within the Cities Church in St. Paul. One video shows the demonstrators chanting "Justice for Renee Good." Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was fatally shot Jan. 7 in Minneapolis by an ICE agent as she was in her car trying to leave the scene.
The demonstrators allege one of the church's pastors serves as the head of ICE's St. Paul field office.
Good's death has ratcheted up already high tensions in the city between federal immigration law enforcement agents and residents amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis where thousands of ICE and Customs and Border Protection agents have been deployed for Operation Metro Surge.
Department of Justice officials were quick to denounce the protest at Cities Church, with Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division stating her office is investigating "these people desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers" for potential violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.
