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Church speakers urge city to allow community engagement officer to return after being withheld from immigration event
Summary
Speakers from Wesley United Methodist Church said a Bloomington police community engagement officer was ordered not to attend a church-hosted immigration information event; they urged the council to reverse the decision and criticized Mayor Brady's public statements.
Two representatives of Wesley United Methodist Church told the Committee of the Whole that the city prevented Sergeant Kyle Nowers — identified in the meeting as a Bloomington Police Department community engagement officer — from speaking at a church‑sponsored immigration information session planned for Aug. 13. The speakers asked the council to reverse the decision and to clarify public remarks by Mayor Brady about the matter.
Steve Butte, who identified himself as a member of Wesley United Methodist Church, described the sequence: he said the church arranged the event with Sergeant Nowers, received a confirmation and flyer approval from…
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