5 things to know after the storming of a Minnesota church by Anti-ICE activists

2. Activist tells people opposed to the church protest to 'check their hearts'

Nekima Levy Armstrong, who leads the Racial Justice Network, is one of the activists who disrupted services at the Cities Church over the weekend, according to a joint report on Monday by CBS News and The Associated Press. 

The activist said that she’s an ordained reverend and dismissed the possibility of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice as a distraction from immigration enforcement efforts in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

"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," Armstrong said. 

"If people are more concerned about someone coming to a church on a Sunday and disrupting business as usual than they are about the atrocities that we are experiencing in our community, then they need to check their theology and the need to check their hearts,” she added. 

David Easterwood is listed on Cities Church’s website as a member of its pastoral team, and his information appears to match a David Easterwood identified in court filings as the acting director of the ICE St. Paul field office, as AP reported.

According to AP, Easterwood appeared alongside Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem at an October press conference.

On Sunday, Armstrong shared a video on Facebook of the protest at the St. Paul-based church, highlighting his reported role as the acting director of the ICE St. Paul field office. 

“It's time for judgment to begin and it will begin in the House of God!!!” Armstrong declared, thanking journalists like former CNN personality Don Lemon, who attended the protest.