The agitators who invaded a church service on Jan. 18 in St. Paul, Minnesota, verbally terrorized children and sent parishioners running for their lives, an unsealed court affidavit says.
The disruption was legitimized by state Attorney General Keith Ellison, a Democrat who basically said, “Stuff happens.”
Political conservatives, the churchgoers and the Justice Department took a decidedly un-Ellison view.
The Justice Department filed charges against three gang members and wanted to indict former CNN anchor Don Lemon, who played the role of protest livestreamer. Judges would not sign the warrant, though one said there was sufficient evidence.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the arrests of three invaders on civil rights violations.
Days after the Jan. 20 charges, the Justice Department unsealed a 19-page affidavit written by Timothy M. Gerber, special agent for the Department of Homeland Security.
The document bears new information based on interviews that agents, including those from the FBI, conducted with parishioners.
The witnesses describe a scene of scary thugs who corralled them in front pews so they could not leave the main entrance, shouted threats such as the word “shoot” and had no problem making children cry.
The affidavit did not name the churchgoers but referred to each as a “victim.”
“Victim 4 informed agents that members of their parish attempted to retrieve their children from the childcare area located downstairs, but the agitators were blocking the stairs, and the parents were unable to get to their children,” the document reads. “Victim 4 recalled one agitator was threatening, aggressive, and intimidating towards parishioners. Additionally, this agitator was screaming and getting in people’s faces, to include women and young children. This agitator continued to scream in the faces of young children while they were crying.”
Victim 6 attended the service with his wife and children.
“Victim 6 recalls protesters everywhere in the aisles chanting [‘Victim 1 out!’],” the affidavit states. “Victim 6 thought to himself that this is what it would feel like to be in a mass shooting. Victim 6 described the events as surreal and could not believe what was happening. Victim 6 recalled people shouting and running, children crying, as well as people singing and praying.”
Victim 1 is David Easterwood, a church pastor who also leads the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, according to published reports. The Jan. 18 service was led by head pastor Jonathan Parnell. --->READ MORE HERE
Don Lemon is doubling down after being caught red-handed conspiring with anti-ICE radicals who raided a Sunday church service in St. Paul, casting blame on the parishioners whom he labeled “entitled” and accusing them of “white supremacy.”
“I think people who are in religious groups like that — it’s not the type of Christianity that I practice — but I think they’re entitled, and that entitlement comes from white supremacy,” Lemon said of Minnesota’s Cities Church in a jaw-dropping interview with lefty “I’ve Had It” podcaster Jennifer Welch.
“They think this country was built for them, that it’s a Christian country.”
In the wake of the protest that saw churchgoers harassed and stalked into the streets, the Justice Department said Lemon was “on notice” for joining the mob.
Harmeet Dhillon, DOJ’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, said on X that her division was investigating “potential violations of the federal FACE Act” for “desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers” — and left the door open for Lemon to be probed.
The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act, is a 1994 law that prohibits interfering with people seeking reproductive health services or exercising religious freedom at a house of worship. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
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