"Assistant DOJ Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon: "The people on the left we're talking about, they're not familiar with what goes on in a house of worship. A lot of them are godless people."- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-01-19T15:46:18.731Z"
""Everyone in the protest community needs to know that the fullest force of the federal government is going to come down and prevent this from happening and put people away for a long, long time," she vowed."
Protesters disrupted worship at Cities Church in Saint Paul, where a pastor serves as an ICE regional director. Don Lemon embedded with protesters, livestreamed interviews, and drew conservative outrage. The Justice Department filed a criminal complaint against Lemon and seven others under the Klan Act and the FACE Act and charged Reverend Armstrong under a Reconstruction-era statute. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon publicly vowed robust federal action against protesters. A magistrate judge refused arrest warrants for five defendants, including Lemon and his producer. DOJ prosecutors sought an arrest warrant to enable publicizing a handcuffed photo and moved to hide related docket activity.
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