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Liberals storm Church service

Don Lemon captured anti-ICE protesters storming a church and confronting a pastor who they believed works as an immigration agent during a chaotic scene that sabotaged the church's service on Sunday. Lemon recorded the protesters during a livestream on his YouTube program. The protesters ran into Cities Church in Minneapolis and started screaming and chanting slogans like "Hands Up, Don't Shoot!" and "ICE OUT" repeatedly. "They've stopped the service [and] a lot of people, a number of people have left," Lemon reported.

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... "This is what the First Amendment is about, the freedom to protest," Lemon told viewers.

"I'm sure people here don't like it, but protests are not comfortable." ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-19 12:16 AM | Reply

Good for them.

#2 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-01-19 12:16 AM | Reply

Storming a church service is just despicable. But then again, Don Lemon is a crappy individual.

Keep confronting people who have nothing to do with a "protest".

#3 | Posted by boaz at 2026-01-19 01:07 AM | Reply

"Don Lemon captured anti-ICE protesters storming a church and confronting a pastor who they believed works as an immigration agent..."

Okay, nothing wrong so far...

"... during a chaotic scene that sabotaged the church's service..."

Wait, whoa, stop right there. Sabotaged the service?!? WRONG PLACE, or WRONG TIME.

This smells of a media event, especially knowing Don Lemon is attached.

#4 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-01-19 01:11 AM | Reply

Idiots.

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-01-19 01:17 AM | Reply

@#3 ... Storming a church service is just despicable. ...

Church Leaders Shaken After a Man Was Detained in Their Parking Lot (June 2025)
www.nytimes.com

... A group of armed men in face coverings detained a Latino man outside a church in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey and took him away on Wednesday, in what pastors believed was a federal immigration raid.

The Rev. Tanya Lopez, senior pastor of Downey Memorial Christian Church, said she was in her office on Wednesday when three SUVs with tinted windows pulled up to her church. Then, Ms. Lopez said, five men, some wearing badges and tan bulletproof vests that said "POLICE," rushed out of the vehicles and detained a man in the parking lot.

The men, Ms. Lopez said, refused to identify which agency they worked for, and they did not share their names or badge numbers when asked. Their vehicles had out-of-state license plates. They also did not provide a warrant, she said.

They took the man into a black SUV. And, Ms. Lopez said that as she shouted instructions in Spanish to the man inside the vehicle, an agent drew a rifle at her. ...

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-19 01:20 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#3 ... Keep confronting people who have nothing to do with a "protest". ...

... and what, specifically, is the problem with a "protest" that your alias implies?

Yer up ...

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-19 01:23 AM | Reply

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#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-19 01:42 AM | Reply

"Storming a church service is just despicable."

Add "during a service", and I agree with you.

Outside, as the congregation is leaving? Fine by me.

Picketing before the service started? First Amendment says Yes.

But DURING a worship service? I agree with Boaz: despicable.

#9 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-01-19 02:07 AM | Reply

"what, specifically, is the problem with a "protest""

It's during someone else's worship service.

I'd be pissed if I choked on communion.

#10 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-01-19 02:12 AM | Reply

@#9, #10 ... "Storming a church service is just despicable."

Add "during a service", and I agree with you.

Outside, as the congregation is leaving? Fine by me. ...

OK, you convinced me.

ICE sabotaging a church service is a bad thing.

But once outside, well then the right for peaceful protest applies. So, imo, possibly, not "fine by me."

Too many details are lacking here.

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-19 02:23 AM | Reply

It's during someone else's worship service.

A actually have to agree that it's in poor taste to interrupt church services with a protest. It's also self defeating.

#12 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-19 05:22 AM | Reply

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