A St. Paul Public Schools board clerk and Black Lives Matter co-founder is facing federal felony charges for storming a church during an anti-ICE protest, and she just used the controversy over a Minneapolis dog park closure to call for desecrating Christian burial grounds.
Chauntyll Allen, who serves as clerk of the Saint Paul Public Schools Board of Education and co-founded Black Lives Matter Twin Cities, posted on social media that Christian cemeteries should be converted into dog parks. Her words were blunt.
Fox News reported Allen wrote on Facebook:
"I don't get why we don't just make dog parks at White Christian cemeteries if White Christians are ok with it? This is a simple fix. Leave the indigenous land sacred and p*** on the White corpses."
The post came as Minneapolis officials prepared to close a dog park near land described as sacred to Indigenous communities. Allen's response turned a local land-use dispute into an open call for racial and religious contempt, from a woman entrusted with overseeing public education for thousands of children.
Allen's social media outburst did not arrive in a vacuum. She already faces federal felony charges connected to the January 18 invasion of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, during anti-ICE demonstrations. Protesters stormed the building while members were worshipping.
Video from the scene captured protesters chanting "ICE out! ICE out!" One unidentified protester confronted a churchgoer directly: "Your pastor's an ICE agent. Come join the black church. That's where you belong."
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated Allen was charged with conspiracy to deprive rights. DHS also shared video of Allen after she was taken into federal custody. Activist Nekima Levy Armstrong was arrested alongside her in connection with the same incident.
Allen showed no remorse. The New York Post reported that Allen defended the church invasion, saying, "I believe that's what needed to be done to get the message across."
That message, apparently, was that a house of worship is fair game for political intimidation. The growing pattern of anti-Christian hostility in American public life makes Allen's conduct all the more alarming, and all the more telling about the institutions that continue to employ her.
Despite federal felony charges and a social media post dripping with racial and religious animus, Allen remained listed as clerk on the Saint Paul Public Schools Board of Education page as of Saturday afternoon. No removal. No suspension. No public action by the district.
The St. Paul Board of Education acknowledged Allen's post but declined to comment further, the New York Post reported.
That silence speaks volumes. A school board member faces conspiracy charges from the federal government. She publicly fantasized about dogs urinating on the graves of white Christians. And the institution responsible for educating St. Paul's children cannot muster a single substantive response.
Minnesota State Rep. Elliott Engen, a Republican from Lino Lakes, did not hold back when Fox News asked what should happen. Engen said:
"Convicted, prosecuted, taken off the school board, never allowed within 500 yards of a school again. That'd be what sane societies do."
Engen told Fox News that Allen's case was not an isolated incident but part of a broader pattern in which Twin Cities school boards have become "activist boards." He described a Minnesota education system saturated with ideological mandates pushed through the state Department of Education.
"It's LGBTQ [and] that sort of thing, and activism through the [Minnesota Department of Education]. So much so that, you know, even in our state curriculum standards now we have comprehensive sex education, which is mandated from third and 12th grade. You have ethnic studies, which is the equivalent of [critical race theory], which is mandated in K-3 and above. You have queer theory and queer studies, which are now being mandated in high school. It is a constant push towards more ideological persuasions and activism."
Parents across the country have raised similar concerns about school boards captured by political activists rather than governed by people focused on reading, math, and responsible stewardship of public funds. In California, a Christian family recently took a school district to federal court after being denied a religious opt-out from LGBTQ+ curriculum, a reminder that these battles are national, not local.
Allen's case puts the problem in the starkest possible terms. This is not a parent who raised an uncomfortable question at a board meeting. This is a BLM co-founder who invaded a church, got arrested by federal agents, and then publicly called for the desecration of Christian graves, while holding an elected position overseeing children's education.
The timeline around Allen's arrest raises its own uncomfortable questions. On January 30, Rep. Ilhan Omar shared photos on social media of a meeting with community leaders that included both Allen and Armstrong. The church invasion occurred on January 18, twelve days before Omar's posted meeting.
Whether Omar knew about the charges or the church incident at the time of that meeting is not clear from available reporting. But the optics of a sitting member of Congress publicly associating with individuals facing federal conspiracy charges, in connection with the invasion of a house of worship, deserve scrutiny.
The broader pattern documented in reporting on Allen's case shows a political ecosystem in which activism, elected office, and radical ideology overlap without consequence. Allen co-founded a BLM chapter, won a school board seat, stormed a church, got arrested on federal charges, called for the desecration of Christian cemeteries, and still holds her position.
At every step, the institutions that should have imposed accountability failed to act. The school board stayed silent. The political allies stayed close.
Meanwhile, other states have moved in the opposite direction on questions of parental rights and institutional accountability in public schools. South Carolina recently signed legislation reasserting parental expectations in school policy, a contrast to Minnesota's apparent tolerance for radicalism on its school boards.
Federal prosecutors have done their part. Allen faces conspiracy charges. DHS made the arrest public. The legal process will proceed on its own timeline.
But the question for St. Paul, and for Minnesota, is whether anyone else will act. Allen holds a position of public trust. She is responsible, in part, for the policies, budgets, and direction of a school system that serves families of every race and faith. Her public statements reveal open contempt for a specific racial and religious group.
The federal government has also shown a willingness to hold institutions accountable when they apply ideological double standards. A DOJ task force recently found the IRS had singled out conservative churches while giving liberal congregations a pass, the kind of institutional bias that festers when no one is willing to name it.
Allen's case is not complicated. A public official faces federal felony charges for invading a church. That same official publicly called for dogs to urinate on the graves of white Christians. She remains in her position.
Rep. Engen's standard is not radical. It is the bare minimum a functioning institution should demand: remove people who face federal conspiracy charges and express open racial and religious hatred from positions of authority over children.
St. Paul's school board has so far chosen silence. That silence is its own answer, and parents in that district deserve a better one.
When a school board cannot bring itself to act against a member who calls for desecrating graves and faces federal charges for invading a church, the board has told you exactly what it values. And it is not the children.
