{"id":342923,"date":"2025-12-11T20:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/342923\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:29:13","slug":"protesters-interrupt-noem-hearing-with-exorcist-line-the-power-of-christ-compels-you-kristi-noem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/342923\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters interrupt Noem hearing with Exorcist line: \u2018The power of Christ compels you!\u2019 | Kristi Noem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Protesters briefly interrupted the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem<\/a>, during a Capitol Hill hearing on Thursday, evoking a quote from the film The Exorcist.<\/p>\n

As Noem delivered her opening remarks before the House committee on homeland security, two protesters disrupted the session, with one yelling: \u201cStop ICE raids! The power of Christ compels you! End deportations, the power of Christ compels you!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe power of Christ compels you!\u201d is famously a line used in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist by a priest performing an exorcism.<\/p>\n

While Noem smiled silently in response to the demonstration, Capitol police quickly escorted the protester out as he held sign that read \u201cStop ICE raids\u201d and \u201cCodepink,\u201d likely referencing the anti-war group.<\/p>\n

Moments later, another protester stood up, displaying a poster that said \u201cNo ICE, no troops!\u201d The individual went on to shout: \u201cGet ICE off our streets! Stop terrorizing our communities!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ProtestersProtesters interrupt Kristi Noem at House homeland hearing \u2013 video<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s incident comes as Noem faces growing calls for resignation from House Democrats over her handling of Donald Trump\u2019s nationwide immigration crackdowns.<\/p>\n

Addressing Noem directly, Mississippi representative Bennie Thompson, the committee\u2019s top Democrat, said at the hearing: \u201cRather than sitting here and wasting your time and ours more with more corruption, lies and lawlessness, I call on you to resign. Do a real service to the country and just resign, that is if President Trump doesn\u2019t fire you first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noem remained defensive, saying that the Trump administration works \u201ceach and every day to make America safe again\u201d and that she was very \u201cprivileged and honored to have my family with me\u201d at the hearing.<\/p>\n

The hearing also comes amid rising tensions between federal agents and the public over immigration tactics in major American cities. These tactics have involved the use of military-grade hardware<\/a> against civilians, including flash-bang grenades and armored personnel carriers, as well as using smartwatches to track pregnant<\/a> immigrants, even during labor.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed<\/a> a new contract to purchase six Boeing 737s for deportations, marking the latest move in a series of steps taken by the government to fulfill Trump\u2019s pledge of executing the \u201clargest deportation operation in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protesters briefly interrupted the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, during a Capitol Hill hearing on Thursday, evoking a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-342923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}