Minneapolis live updates: ICE arrest powers expanded, memo says

FBI and Homeland Security Investigations agents arrested civil rights attorney and activist Nekima Levy Armstrong, "who allegedly played a key role in organizing the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota," Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on X Thursday.

"Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP," Bondi added.

Armstrong told ABC News that she, along with others, organized a protest at a Twin Cities Southern Baptist church on Sunday to call attention to one of its pastors, David Easterwood, whose role as a local acting ICE field office director in St. Paul, Minnesota, they condemn.

President Donald Trump criticized the church protest and launched an investigation into it, calling it a "church raid" led by "agitators and insurrectionists."

Armstrong pushed back on Trump's comments and said she was ready to have a dialogue with Easterwood or other church leadership after interrupting the service.

--ABC News' Luke Barr

A law firm representing the family of Renee Good has released the preliminary findings of an independent autopsy into the death of the 37-year-old who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis earlier this month.

The Department of Homeland Security said the agent opened fire after Good tried to ram officers with her vehicle.

Good suffered three "gunshot wound paths," according to a summary of the findings from the Romanucci & Blandin law firm.

• One gunshot struck her left forearm, causing soft tissue damage and hemorrhage
• One gunshot wound traversed the right breast without penetrating major internal organs
• One gunshot entered the left side of her head near the temple and exited the right side of her head

Good also suffered a superficial wound from being grazed by a bullet, according to the law firm.

The wounds to Good's left forearm and breast were not immediately life-threatening, according to the autopsy, the law firm said.

The results of the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office autopsy have not yet been released to the family or legal team, the law firm said.

The Pentagon has placed hundreds of Army military police soldiers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to two U.S. officials.

The preparations are tied to the possibility that President Donald Trump could invoke the Insurrection Act, a rarely used law that allows the president to deploy federal troops on American soil.

ABC News previously reported Saturday that roughly 1,500 active-duty soldiers from at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Alaska had been ordered to ready themselves for such a mission.

No specific mission to Minnesota has been developed, both U.S. officials said, adding that the purpose is to ensure the president has a range of options should he decide to deploy troops.

Trump has repeatedly threatened to invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act, a statute that has been used sparingly and most often during the civil rights era, when federal troops were deployed to suppress unrest and enforce school desegregation.

"I don't think we need it at this point, and hopefully we won’t need it," Trump said in an interview with NewsNation on Tuesday.

-ABC News' Steve Beynon

An appeals court has temporarily blocked a federal judge’s order that barred immigration agents from arresting protesters or using non-lethal weapons against them.

This is part of an ongoing case in Minnesota filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in December.

U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez had granted the ACLU’s request and ruled that federal agents deployed to the state under the operation are prohibited from arresting or detaining peaceful protesters “in retaliation for their protected conduct and absent a showing of probable cause or reasonable suspicion that the person has committed a crime or is obstructing or interfering with the activities.”

The order had also barred ICE and other federal agents from stopping drivers and passengers unless there’s reasonable suspicion that they’re obstructing federal enforcement activities.

-ABC News' Laura Romero