Has-been TV anchor Don Lemon inadvertently did the country a favor by embedding himself and his camera in that deranged “Anti-ICE” assault on a Twin Cities church.
The clear video record showing the stunt to be a fevered disruption of a religious service fully justifies the arrest of two “protest” ringleaders on federal charges — since the local authorities plainly would never act, despite the evidence.
After all, both “head hooligans” are connected to the Minneapolis-St. Paul political power structure.
One is a prominent Black Lives Matter activist and member of the St. Paul school board; Chauntyll Louisa Allen proudly claims the gang was imitating Jesus when it stormed into the church to harass the congregation — because they believe an assistant pastor (who wasn’t there that day!) is working as Minnesota ICE field director.
The other, attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, is a past president of the Minneapolis NAACP chapter and a former mayoral candidate; she claimed the goons were doing the Lord’s work because it’s “unconscionable and unacceptable” for an ICE “overseer” to dare preach the word of God.
And they’re already backing off early proud claims that the vile interruption of Sunday services at the Cities Church a “clandestine operation” to begin a “time for judgment”; Armstrong has even told CNN’s Erin Burnett the protesters were “part of the service.”
In fact, the video shows the several dozen radicals taking over the service, shouting “Justice for Renee Good,” the protester killed Jan. 7 while driving her vehicle into federal officers: Ghoulish agitators scream in the faces of congregants, denouncing them as “comfortable white people” living “lavish lives while children are dragged into concentration camps.”
What self-righteous gall, to cite spiritual authority to paint your sacrilege as high-minded.
This church invasion, incidentally, came just five months after another deranged lefty shot dozens, killing two children, during a Mass at another Twin Cities church.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison put his own ignorance of the law on display by denying the incident could be a violation of the FACE Act, which in fact expressly classifies interrupting church services as a civil-rights crime.
He’s also pretended the First Amendment protects the hooligans: “None of us are immune from the voice of the public” — as if a private church were the same thing as a public square, where a right to protest does exist.
Lemon has alternately pretended he didn’t know what Armstrong and Allen intended to do in the church, wrongly cited the First Amendment and generally shown that he never should’ve been the face of CNN for all those years.
The whole pack is remarkably deluded — thinking their loud claims to moral superiority will suffice to snow average Americans into thinking the church invasion was somehow OK.
Then again, that seems to be the approach of nearly the entire Democratic Party to any ICE efforts at immigration-law enforcement; watch them keep it up until they find it doesn’t work, at which point they’ll insist they never said any such thing.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
