"Why is the Trump administration arresting journalists and activists over a protest inside a Minnesota church? The official reason the government cited Friday-when it arrested independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, as well as two others-was that they were part of a "coordinated attack" on Cities Church in St. Paul. It's a strange claim: Videos from the incident, which occurred Jan. 18, showed protesters being loud in interrupting a worship service, but not physically touching anyone or damaging any property."
"The protest may have been unpleasant for those in the pews-videos showed at least one man haranguing people for their complicity in supporting ICE-but it's hardly an "attack." The incident has, however, gone viral in conservative media-proof positive of the degeneracy of the Minnesota protesters and yet another example of the left's anti-Christian bigotry. Critics of the protest portrayed it as an intrusion of vulgar politics into a sacred refuge from daily life, a faceoff between vicious activists and apolitical (and bewildered) parishioners."
Independent journalists and activists were arrested after a Jan. 18 protest inside Cities Church in St. Paul, with the government calling the action a 'coordinated attack.' Video from the protest showed vocal interruptions of a worship service but no physical contact or property damage. The arrests included high-profile figures such as Don Lemon and Georgia Fort and have been amplified by conservative media as evidence of left-wing hostility toward Christianity. Protesters targeted an ICE agent who served as a lay pastor. The church maintains extensive ties to a political network within the Christian nationalism movement connected to senior Trump administration figures.
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