RedState reported over the weekend on how the anti-ICE crew stormed a church in St. Paul because they thought one of the pastors was an ICE agent. They ran in, right in the middle of the service, chanting Renee Good’s name and other things like “Hands up, don’t shoot.” The service was shut down.
Now that’s pretty vile. There are a lot of ways you can protest ICE without violating a church service and stopping people from trying to pray. If you’re storming a church, you are not the good guys.
The DOJ is now looking into the incident.
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon filmed the event and claimed he was just there as a journalist. Here’s Lemon telling the pastor that people have a right to protest.
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“This is unacceptable. It’s SHAMEFUL. It’s shameful to to interrupt a public gathering of Christians in worship!”… pic.twitter.com/jAwFGCvBI9
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 18, 2026
Lemon described speaking with the activist group beforehand. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said that being a journalist wouldn’t necessarily provide him a shield. She did not say whether he would be charged.
But if you’re Don Lemon, this would probably be the time not to continue to dig the hole deeper.
However, it’s Don Lemon, so naturally, he decided to open his mouth and make things worse. He appeared on the podcast I’ve Had It with Jennifer Welch. He claimed that he didn’t know they would be going to a church. But he also smeared the parishioners of the church.
Don Lemon on church members upset that he stormed their church: “They’re entitled, white supremacists” pic.twitter.com/aMlXYBugwB
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 19, 2026
“And there’s a certain degree of entitlement. I think people who are, you know, in the religious groups like that, it’s not the type of Christianity that I practice, but I think that they’re entitled and that that entitlement comes from a supremacy, white supremacy, and they think that this country was built for them, that it is a Christian country, when actually we left England because we wanted religious freedom. It’s religious freedom, but only if you’re a Christian and only if you’re a white male, pretty much.”
Entitled? Yes, they’re entitled to be able to worship in peace, and not have agitators come storming into their church telling them how to be a Christian. Shutting down a church service isn’t very “Christian.” How dare the parishioners think they should not have to put up with this?
Then, Lemon smears them as white supremacists? How despicable is this?
Lemon spoke about how he became the “face” of the action in the coverage of this story. He said he had the “biggest name” and was a “gay, black male.”
What does that have to do with anything? None of this had to do with his race or his being gay, so that’s also disgusting to suggest it does.
What this incident did was reveal, if people didn’t already know, how extreme this anti-ICE movement is. This action against a church should be condemned by every Democrat.
But it won’t be.
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