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More Karen catnip
We covered in a previous installment of Anti-ICE Karens Gone Wild! A Jussie Smollett-esque Somali hate crime victim the local Minneapolis authorities paraded out with a very unconvincing Band-Aid on her very large forehead to ramble about a modern-day lynching she experienced at the hands of ICE.
Objectively, it wasn’t an impressive performance, but the Karens gobbled it up regardless.
Your latest totally believable ICE hate crime victim.
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) January 25, 2026
Don't you see the Band-Aid taped to her face?
That means she's legit, bigots.
Nothing but affirmation. pic.twitter.com/fiO0RGWX8k
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So here we have another casualty of the modern civil rights struggle that’s sure to tug on the heartstrings of the Karens.
You might recall the kerfuffle earlier this month in which Don Lemon led a gang of Social Justice™ vigilantes into a church service because they suspected one of the pastors was working with ICE.
One of the comrades, Levy Armstrong, recently got picked up on federal conspiracy against rights charges — specifically, 18 USC 241.
Via KARE 11 (emphasis added):
Twin Cities civil rights attorney and activist Nekima Levy Armstrong called her arrest in connection with a protest at St. Paul church earlier this month "political retaliation," while criticizing the Trump administration's immigration operations.
Levy Armstrong held a news conference Thursday in Minneapolis to address the arrest and reiterate the message behind the demonstration that was held on Jan. 18 at Cities Church in St. Paul.
Levy Armstrong, who is also a Reverend herself, was among the anti-ICE demonstrators seen on a livestream by journalist Don Lemon entering Cities Church and disrupting a service, calling for Pastor David Easterwood to resign. Easterwood has also served as a local field office director for ICE.
"I stand before you today as someone who is facing political retaliation at the hands of the Trump administration for using my voice to speak truth to power and to challenge what I feel is a conflict of interest with regard to ICE pastor David Easterwood serving as both a pastor at Cities Church as well as the acting director for the field office for ICE in the state of Minnesota," Levy Amrmstrong said. "In that capacity, David Easterwood has condoned the conduct of ICE agents who have wreaked havoc upon the streets of Minneapolis."…
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem posted a photo to social media showing Levy Armstrong in custody, and stated that she was being charged with a federal crime under federal statute 18 USC 241, which deals with civil rights conspiracy. Federal officials said they believe the protesters prevented people from being able to practice their religion in a place of worship.
Homeland Security Investigators and FBI agents arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong who played a key role in orchestrating the Church Riots in St. Paul, Minnesota.
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) January 22, 2026
She is being charged with a federal crime under 18 USC 241.
Religious freedom is the bedrock of the United States -… pic.twitter.com/LHh994fXf3
The base wanted Don Lemon’s lemonhead; they got flea-market Rosa Parks instead.
Best they can do.
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Anyway, here’s the titillating excerpt from Armstrong’s above-mentioned press conference that’s sure to drive the Karens into a frenzy:
We had belly chains around our waist, and we had handcuffs with bars in the middle. As someone who majored in African-American studies, I can tell you that that is closest I ever felt to slavery in my life—being shackled as if I was a slave. It is unacceptable and unconscionable.
“Unacceptable and unconscionable”:
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) January 30, 2026
Anti-ICE church rioters put in handcuffs -- just like in slavery times! pic.twitter.com/H0suOyIU5t
“Unacceptable and unconscionable”!
She did the Jackie Chiles bit.
Amazing stuff.I like to tell this story as often as possible, because it’s so frequently apropos.
My grandfather once informed my liberal aunt, bless her heart, that a local church in the Topeka area had burned down — later ruled an accident, the cause of which he didn’t mention up front.
Her immediate response was to clutch her pearls and ask in hushed tones: “Was it a black church?”
Yes, sweetheart. The epicenter of black church burnings, Topeka, Kan., has suffered yet another in a long, seemingly unending string of black church burnings.
We shall overcome!
