A Black Lives Matter activist in Minnesota has sparked controversy after proposing that dogs should be allowed to urinate in 'white Christian cemeteries.' 

Chauntyll Allen, a St. Paul school board member and co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM) Twin Cities, made the comment in a public Facebook post after Minneapolis officials moved to shut down a popular off-leash dog park.

'I don't get why we don't just make dog parks at white Christian cemeteries if white Christians are ok with it?' Allen suggested.

'This is a simple fix,' she added. 'Leave indigenous land sacred and piss on the white corpses.' 

It marked the latest controversy for Allen, who is currently facing felony charges stemming from the January 18 storming of Cities Church in St. Paul, where federal prosecutors claimed she was part of an anti-ICE mob. 

Meanwhile, the activist's most recent remark came amid a heated exchange on a public forum for Minnehaha Dog Park, a 6.6-acre riverfront area featuring hiking trails where dogs with required permits can roam freely. 

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board passed a motion earlier this month that it would 'decommission' the off-leash dog park, which city officials voted to officially close by the end of this year. 

The reasoning centered on the ‘sacred’ Dakota land the park sits on, which Board President Tom Olsen said holds burial sites, though failed to share any more specifics, according to CNN.

'This space means a lot more and there is a lot more history to it than we had previously known,' Olsen said ahead of the meeting.

'We understand that there is this important amenity, but we have to kind of readjust what our expectations and use of that space is,' he added.

The debate followed the completion of an archaeological study, which found that the area where dogs have been relieving themselves is located within the Mni Owe Sni (Coldwater Spring) Traditional Cultural Place, considered sacred by Dakota tribes.

City officials claimed that unmarked graves are scattered across the land, containing the bodies of those connected to the aftermath of the US-Dakota War of 1862. 

'There was a concentration camp there at Fort Snelling, at the Bdóte area, and due to that, history there, there were a lot of relatives, ancestors who died over that winter,' Maggie Lorenz, executive director of Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi, told CNN.

'Because of that, there were a lot of unmarked graves and burials around that area,' she added.

Park board members have not released any documentation confirming the presence of human remains, though Lorenz said she believes the decision is intentional, not a sign that the remains themselves do not exist. 

'There's a reason that that data is kept protected. Unfortunately, there is a very real risk of people trying to loot these burial sites for funerary objects and artifacts,' she told the outlet.

During a meeting held earlier this month, people on both sides of the argument expressed strong views before an official decision was reached.

'Public park land is meant to be shared, not segregated and, crucially, the presence of dogs here does not preclude anyone else from enjoying the broader landscape,' Jeremy Fink said.

Gary Spears argued: 'We have a religious freedom act as the Native people here and the dog park is infringing on that.'

'I think it's finally being recognized that we, as Dakota people, as the Indigenous peoples of Minnesota, we have these places,' Lorenz added, speaking to CNN.

'We've always had these places and they're finally now starting to be recognized and protected as such,' she added.

'Because people are listening now, people are really willing to try to correct some of these historical wrongs.'

The argument spilled onto a public Facebook forum, where debate over allowing dogs to roam and relieve themselves on the sacred land intensified further - particularly after Allen’s comment.

The group, which has more than 1,500 members, quickly descended into a back-and-forth battle, eventually forcing the comment section to be closed. 

'With people like Chauntyll Allen on the Saint Paul Public School Board, no wonder our schools have become so dismal. It's a bummer,' one comment read.

The same user added: 'The 30-year-old dog park is in a flood plain, underwater every year and wasn't walkable even 50 years ago. There are no graves there as it was underwater 100 years ago.'

'But don't let facts stop a Saint Paul School Board member from voicing their enthusiasm of pissing on white corpses.'

Another comment said: 'Hey let's use our dogs to get our white racist agendas against natives!' to which a separate user accused them of using that ideology simply because they don't agree.

'What makes your beliefs more important than mine?' another user added.

One commenter explained: 'I believe the main issue why people tried to save a portion of this area as an off-leash area is simply because it was the one and only legal dog park in Minneapolis.'

Another wrote: 'There's no evidence it's a "cemetery" (but I get your point).'

'I’d wanna be buried at said cemetery - as dogs bring such joy to my life. Getting sh*t on would not be the most ideal, but I’d be dead and wouldn’t know the difference anyway,' said another.