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Reporting from multiple national and local outlets shows that a man named David Easterwood is listed as a pastor at Cities Church in St. Paul and strongly appears to be the same David Easterwood ident...
Multiple mainstream outlets reported that Cities Church lists a pastor named David Easterwood and that federal records and court filings identify a David Easterwood as the acting Field Office Director...
Multiple mainstream outlets report that a man named David Easterwood is listed as a pastor at Cities Church in St. Paul and that a David Easterwood has served as the acting field office director for U...
There are publicly available photographs and video images identified as David Easterwood in his role as acting Field Office Director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and images of a ...
A spate of online posts and on-site protests have linked a Cities Church pastor named David Easterwood to the acting Field Office Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in St. Paul...
ICE court filings and related federal documents identify a person named David Easterwood as the acting Field Office Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations in the St. Paul ICE office, and thos...
Multiple mainstream outlets report that the Cities Church website lists a David Easterwood as a pastor and that the name and personal details of a David Easterwood appearing in ICE court filings and p...
Federal law includes specific protections for houses of worship against force, threats or physical obstruction under , and has signaled it will use that statute and other civil‑rights authorities in r...
Two different public threads converge in reporting: Cities Church’s website lists a David Easterwood as a pastor, and DHS/ICE filings and press appearances identify a David Easterwood as the acting St...
The protests in St. Paul were disruptive and at times confrontational — participants interrupted a church service, staged sit-ins and occupied public spaces, and there were incidents described as scuf...
A group of roughly 30–40 anti‑ICE protesters entered Cities Church in St. Paul during a Sunday service and chanted slogans including "ICE out" and "Justice for Renee Good," prompting a Department of J...
No credible reporting in the provided sources indicates anyone was arrested at a Minnesota church for violating COVID lockdown orders; instead the coverage documents a January incident in which anti-I...
Don Lemon is a high-profile journalist whose career includes a long tenure at CNN and a string of public controversies that culminated in his 2023 firing and renewed scrutiny after he livestreamed and...
Multiple recent court filings — including a mid‑December class action by the ACLU of Minnesota and a state lawsuit filed Jan. 12 — identify a person named David Easterwood as the acting director of IC...
David Easterwood is identified in multiple news reports and court documents as the acting director of ICE’s St. Paul field office and is routinely named in Department of Homeland Security litigation i...
The clearest starting point for verifying Jake Lang’s Jan. 17 footage is the long livestream that included footage of the Minneapolis confrontation — Don Lemon’s broadcast, which carried his arrival a...
Places of worship have been treated in two contrasting ways during protests tied to federal law-enforcement actions: as shields and sanctuaries that protestors sometimes occupy or invoke for moral aut...