""I'm asking you to please treat me with dignity and respect," she said to the agents. "We have to put you in handcuffs," one agent said, while another held up a phone and appeared to record a video. "Why are you recording?" Levy Armstrong asked. "I would ask that you not record." "It's not going to be on Twitter," the agent filming said. "It's not going to be on anything like that." "We don't want to create a false narrative," the agent said."
"A Minnesota activist who was charged for her role in an anti-immigration enforcement protest at a church released her own video of her arrest Friday after the White House posted a manipulated image online. The White House on Thursday posted a picture on its X page of civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong crying with her hands behind her back as she was escorted by a blurred person wearing a badge."
Nekima Levy Armstrong, a Minnesota civil rights activist charged in connection with an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest that disrupted a church service, released video of her arrest after the White House posted a manipulated image depicting her crying. Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem posted the same image showing a neutral expression. The video, filmed by Levy Armstrong's husband, shows federal agents approaching, her asking to be treated with dignity, agents saying they needed to cuff her while recording, and agents saying they did not want to create a false narrative. Levy Armstrong and Chauntyll Allen were released Friday, according to the Racial Justice Network.
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