The federal government laid out its case against Don Lemon by detailing 29 “overt acts” he and an group of agitators allegedly committed as they stormed a Minnesota church, leaving kids wondering “if their parents were going to die.”
Four activists, including Lemon, disrupted a Sunday service at Cities Church in St. Paul on Jan. 18 and were arrested Thursday night in connection to the raid on the house of worship.
Four activists, including Lemon, who disrupted a Sunday church service at Cities Church in St. Paul on Jan. 18 were arrested Thursday night in connection to the raid on the house of worship.” Don Lemon / YouTube
The federal government laid out its case against Don Lemon by detailing 29 “overt acts” he and an group of agitators allegedly committed as they stormed a Minnesota church. @TheDonLemonShow/YouTubeAs a result of defendants’ conduct, the pastor and congregation were forced to terminate the church’s worship service, congregants fled the church building out of fear for their safety,” the unsealed federal indictment viewed by The Post reads.
“Other congregants took steps to implement an emergency plan, and young children were left to wonder, as one child put it, if their parents were going to die.
“Lemon live-streamed the “takeover-style attack” under the guise of “chronicling” the events, the indictment says. Don Lemon / YouTubeLemon live-streamed the “takeover-style attack” under the guise of “chronicling” the events, but repeatedly revealed he was in league with the activists through his footage, the indictment says.
Notably, videos showing the church action have been deleted from his YouTube page.
In describing one of the overt acts, the indictment goes into great detail about how “The Don Lemon Show” host and his alleged co-conspirators “oppressed, threatened, and intimidated the church’s congregants and pastors by physically occupying most of the main aisle and rows of chairs near the front of the church.”
It says that they engaged in “menacing and threatening behavior… yelling loudly at the pastor and congregants, and/or physically obstructing them as they attempted to exit and/or move about within the church.”
The indictment points out that Lemon began live-streaming his internet-based show from a snowy parking lot a stone’s throw away from where the group “was gearing up for a ‘resistance’ operation” against the government’s immigration policies.
“[H]e took steps to maintain operational secrecy by reminding certain co-conspirators not to disclose the target of the operation and stepped away momentarily so his mic would not accidentally divulge certain portions of the planning session,” the indictment reads.
Lemon also thanked Black Lives Matter activist and civil rights attorney Nekima Armstrong “for what she was doing.”
