DOJ puts Don Lemon ‘on notice’ over joining anti-ICE mob that stormed church

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00:00Former CNN anchor Don Lemon has been warned by the Justice Department over allegations

00:04he joined a swarm of anti-ICE protesters who burst into a Minnesota church in the middle

00:09of Sunday service and accused a pastor of working with ICE.

00:13Lemon, who has been documenting the increasingly violent protests following the shooting of

00:17Renee Nicole Good, livestreamed himself alongside demonstrators with the Racial Justice Network

00:23storming into the city's church in St. Paul, Minnesota, as they called out resident pastor

00:27David Eastwood, whom they accused of moonlighting as the acting field office director for ICE

00:32in the North Star State.

00:34A David Eastwood is listed as an employee with the local field office, however the Post could

00:39not independently confirm whether he was the same person who heads up city's church.

00:44Eastwood was not at the Sunday service.

00:47Some service disruptors chanted slogans heard at the dozens of other protests that have wreaked

00:51havoc around Minneapolis.

00:55While others specifically slandered Eastwood for supposedly misrepresenting the ideals

01:00of his faith through his support for ICE.

01:02David Eastwood out now!

01:06Lemon spoke with the congregation's lead pastor, Jonathan Parnell, who said the bombardment

01:10was shameful.

01:11I mean, this is unacceptable.

01:13It's shameful.

01:14It's shameful to interrupt a public gathering of Christians in worship.

01:20The Department of Justice is probing the demonstration at the church for potential violation of civil

01:24rights laws, specifically for interfering with Christian worshipers, according to a post on

01:28X.

01:29Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department's Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, chided Lemon

01:35on social media.

01:36A house of worship is not a public forum for your protests.

01:40It is a space protected from exactly such acts by federal, criminal, and civil laws.

01:45Nor does the First Amendment protect your pseudo journalism of disrupting a prayer service.

01:50You are on notice, she wrote.

01:52In a follow-up post, she noted that the FBI has been activated and accused the protesters

01:57of desecrating a house of worship.

02:00Lemon has dismissed calls for him to be prosecuted for joining in with the group, and defended his

02:04actions as protected under the First Amendment.

02:07The MAGA administration and the fake news MAGAs are losing their mind over something that's

02:12not even true, Lemon said, claiming he had no affiliations with the organization, defending

02:17his actions as, quote, an act of journalism.