Protesters interrupt Noem hearing with Exorcist line: ‘The power of Christ compels you!’

An officer stops a protester during a House hearing with homeland security secretary Kristi Noem and National Counterterrorism Center director Joseph Kent in Washington DC on Thursday. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

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

As Noem delivered her opening remarks before the House committee on homeland security, two protesters disrupted the session, with one yelling: “Stop ICE raids! The power of Christ compels you! End deportations, the power of Christ compels you!”