Former CNN host turned independent journalist Don Lemon pleaded not guilty in federal court in Minnesota on Friday. Lemon along with four other defendants were indicted for their alleged roles in disrupting a service at church where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official was a pastor.
A churchgoer has slapped lefty activist news commentator Don Lemon with a civil suit for his alleged involvement in an anti- ICE mob that stormed a Minnesota church last month. Lemon, 59, was arrested in Los Angeles for his role in the Jan.
18 takeover of Cities Church in St. Paul, which he joined with a few dozen local Black Lives Matter activists under the guise of acting in his capacity as a journalist.A worshipper at the Twin Cities Church sued Don Lemon and other protesters involved in the mob that descended during a Sunday service in January.In the suit, Ann Doucette claims the protesters’ storming of the parish — which happened during a Sunday service packed with families — left her with “severe emotional distress, fear, anxiety, and trauma,” and that the rowdy agitators deprived her of her right to freely practice her faith. The ousted CNN reporter allegedly linked up with a demonstrator who provided “logistics and local contacts in support of the operation,” the suit said. Don Lemon implies Minnesota churchgoers too dumb to ‘understand’ he’s a journalist — not a protester — as he pulls race card Grandstanding Don Lemon insists he ‘will not be silenced’ after he pleads not guilty to Minnesota church protest chargesIn the chaos, Lemon “appeared to take satisfaction” as he livestreamed the event on his multi-platform show, according to the suit.Even so, he was charged with one count of conspiracy against the right of religious freedom at a place of worship and one count of injuring, intimidating, and interfering with the exercise of the right of religious freedom at a place of worship.“Like all of you here in Minnesota, the great people of Minnesota, I will not back down, I will not be intimidated, I will fight these baseless charges, I will not be silenced,” Lemon continued. The mob descended on the church because a pastor there, David Eastwood, moonlights as an acting field office director in St. Paul for Enforcement and Removal Operations at ICE.In the weeks since Lemon and nine others were arrested in connection with the protest, he’s pivoted to demean the worshippers caught in the crossfire who “could not understand” his involvement. “And I think they were looking at me, and because the bulk of the protesters were black, maybe they thought because I’m black that – and I kept saying, ‘I’m not a protester. I’m here covering the protest. I’m not with them,’” Lemon recounted“And they were, you know, they just for some reason could not understand. So why they couldn’t figure that out, I don’t know.”Stunned upstate NY mom gives birth to massive, record-breaking baby: 'We didn't expect this' NC mom who ran away from family 24 years ago makes extraordinary claim as she resurfaces for first time3.1KLisa Rinna Claims She Was Drugged At ‘The Traitors’ Season 4 Premiere Watch Party: “I Had Fentanyl In My System”When Is Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address? Start Time, Where To Watch Jeff Probst Reveals Mike White Got “Ripped” Ahead of ‘Survivor 50’: “He Takes His Shirt Off Right On Day 1”A worshipper at the Twin Cities Church sued Don Lemon and other protesters involved in the mob that descended during a Sunday service in January.
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