"A top Justice Department official placed Don Lemon on notice after accusing him of crossing the line by following anti-ICE protestors into a Minnesota church on Sunday warning on a MAGA podcast Monday that journalism is not a badge or a shield that protects you from criminal consequences. The rebuke came after Lemon entered a Sunday morning service at Cities Church in St. Paul with demonstrators chanting ICE out! and Renee Good!"
"Late Sunday, Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department's assistant attorney general for civil rights, publicly rebuked Lemon on X. A house of worship is not a public forum for your protest! It is a space protected from exactly such acts by federal criminal and civil laws! Nor does the First Amendment protect your pseudo journalism of disrupting a prayer service, she wrote. You are on notice!"
A Justice Department assistant attorney general publicly warned Don Lemon after he entered a Sunday service at Cities Church in St. Paul while anti-ICE protesters chanted. Protesters accused a church leader of ties to immigration enforcement and disrupted worship as Lemon filmed the confrontation. Congregants quickly left the building and a worshipper later reported feeling violated and angry. Pastor Jonathan Parnell called the protest shameful and urged Lemon to leave. The civil rights official said houses of worship are protected by federal criminal and civil laws and said the FBI was activated; Lemon denied wrongdoing and rejected calls for prosecution.
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