DOJ says it will pursue charges against Don Lemon, anti-ICE protesters for St. Paul church invasion

The Department of Justice will “pursue charges” against the anti-ICE agitators who invaded a Sunday church service in St.Paul, including disgraced former CNN reporter Don Lemon, who feebly attempted to cloak his participation in the chaos as an “act of journalism.”Assistant attorney general for civil rights Harmeet Dhillon told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson that the department “will pursue charges” related to the incident in which families and children were terrorized by a screaming mob of protesters at Cities Church.Lemon “went into the facility, and then he began, quote, unquote ‘committing journalism,’ as if that’s a sort of shield from being a part, an embedded part, of a criminal conspiracy.

It isn’t,” Dhillon clarified during an appearance on “The Benny Show” Monday.In her interview with Johnson, Dhillon also hinted at the possibility of the DOJ charging Lemon under the Enforcement Act of 1871, also known as the Ku Klux Klan act.“Whenever anyone conspires to violate the protected civil rights of American citizens, the Klan Act can be used to bring a conspiracy charge,” she said.Video posted by Lemon himself before, during and after the church takeover showed he was very much part of the group, under the flimsy guise of “chronicling” the event as a journalist.Ahead of the group barging into the house of worship, Lemon filmed a segment saying he had done some “reconnaissance” with the activists, which included members of Minnesota Black Lives Matter, who were milling about in a parking lot a few feet away.“They’re planning an operation we’re going to follow them on.I can’t tell you exactly what they’re doing, but it’s called Operation Pull-Up,” he said coyly.“So that’s what we’re doing here, and after we do this operation, you’ll see it live, these operations are surprise operations, again I can’t tell you where they’re going,” he said, readily admitting he had foreknowledge of what was...