"Armstrong responds by describing what she characterizes as a deliberate strategy to disrupt "business as usual" at locations activists view as complicit in immigration enforcement. She described the action as a response to the killing of Renee Nicole Good, a Minneapolis woman fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross earlier this month. That incident has fueled protests across the Twin Cities and beyond."
""So right now it's kind of mayhem," Lemon says in one scene from inside the church, where other people with cameras and microphones can be seen. "We're not part of the activists, but we're here just reporting." Lemon also interviews a pastor at the church, who says congregants were gathered for worship and that the pastor asked protesters to leave."
After a DOJ warning that Lemon's coverage of an anti-ICE protest inside a Minnesota church could carry legal consequences, Lemon publicly defended his reporting. Lemon posted a Bluesky recording showing him questioning activist Nekima Levy Armstrong moments before she and others entered Cities Church in St. Paul. Armstrong described the action as a deliberate strategy to disrupt 'business as usual' at locations viewed as complicit in immigration enforcement and as a response to the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent. Lemon recorded scenes inside the church, interviewed a pastor and a congregant, and emphasized that he and his team were reporting, not protesting. Free press advocates characterize the DOJ posture as an authoritarian, unlawful shift in federal engagement with journalists.
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