Liberals storm Church service

Sunday, January 18, 2026

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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From the cited article ...

... "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 | Funny: 1

"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

Frank Sinatra Jr - The Gumby Heart Song (1989)
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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 | Newsworthy 1

When we start giving the green light to "confronting" people, that's when civil wars start.

Well, don't get mad when conservatives start "confronting" people.

#13 | Posted by boaz at 2026-01-19 07:51 AM | Reply

Civil wars start when one side sees violence as a way to achieve it's objectives and the Other resists with Force.

Government using Violence to repress the population and the populace shooting back.

Or, Armed insurrection against a weak and passive government that doesn't respond to citizens needs.

Many different permutations are possible.

#14 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-01-19 10:26 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

Get used to it, imo.

Evangelicals are fascist.

#15 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-01-19 11:01 AM | Reply

Evangelicals are Charlatans,and Usually Moneyseekers.

#16 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-01-19 11:05 AM | Reply

"Storming a church service is just despicable."

Oh?

And how do you feel about storming the US Capitol during a combined session of both Houses of Congress?

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-19 11:09 AM | Reply

Well, don't get mad when conservatives start "confronting" people.

Start?
LMAO!

#18 | Posted by YAV at 2026-01-19 11:28 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

By the way - interrupting a church service as reported is out of bounds for me. This was despicable and works against what thousans of decent people are protesting against.

#19 | Posted by YAV at 2026-01-19 11:34 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Fkkk the ICE pastor. I'm glad the community came together to throw him out.

Boaz is more upset about this than he was about Dylann Roof.

#20 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-19 11:38 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

And how do you (BOAZ) feel about storming the US Capitol during a combined session of both Houses of Congress?

#17 | Posted by donnerboy

A warm as toast.

#21 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-19 11:42 AM | Reply

When we start giving the green light to "confronting" people, that's when civil wars start.

#13 | Posted by boaz

Then don't fire on Fort Sumpter, BOAZ.

#22 | Posted by Zed at 2026-01-19 11:44 AM | Reply

There's no evidence the pastor's with ICE.
I will not support actions based on rumors.

We should not be like right-wing nutters like Noem, Trump, Hegseth, Vance, etc. that are destroying our nation using lie after lie after lie. We should not demonize someone based on rumors or any other stupid reasons - like the right-wing does, because they speak with an accent or don't look white enough, or by knowing our constitutional rights and refusing to yield to their pathetic injured feelings.

#23 | Posted by YAV at 2026-01-19 11:44 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

interrupting a church service as reported is out of bounds for me.

Why? What are you taking about?

There's no out of bounds. This is why democrats are getting walked over, because people like you think there's bounds when republicans clearly have none.

This was despicable and works against what thousans of decent people are protesting against.
#19 | POSTED BY YAV

You know what's despicable? ICE breaking into homes, dragging children out of schools, flash banging infants, shooting innocent woman in the face.

You know what's despicable? Spreading hate at the pulpit while pretending you're preaching the word of God.

I commend the community for throwing that ICE pastor out of that church and out of that community.

Fuck him.

#24 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-19 11:45 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 3

"Storming a church service is just despicable."

What if I view an ICE protest as a religious service?

What if I view standing in the way of ICE as the highest form of religious expression?

I believe the New Testament supports my religious beliefs more than the "church" goers.

#25 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-01-19 11:47 AM | Reply

When we start giving the green light to "confronting" people, that's when civil wars start.
Well, don't get mad when conservatives start "confronting" people.
#13 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Hey stupid.

You really are this dumb.

ICE is "conservatives confronting people".

The people are tired of the Guardians Of Pedophiles party walking all over us.

#26 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-19 11:50 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"There's no evidence the pastor's with ICE."

Yeah. I'd have to see the evidence first. Even then I think I'd keep it outside.

Though I understand perfectly why people are getting pissed.

And this is nothing compared to what can happen if America keeps going down this road.

#27 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-19 11:51 AM | Reply

peoplesworld.org

I am sure Boaz will be along to condemn this. Or does this fall under conservatives confronting us?

#28 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-01-19 11:53 AM | Reply

peoplesworld.org

ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), in an ever-expanding unconstitutional crime spree, is ushering in the Christmas season by launching immigration raids inside churches across the country. Trump's holiday gift to the nation is the administration's new policy that it is legal to enter churches as people worship and round them up in the immigration raids happening from coast to coast.

I am sure Boaz will be along to condemn this. Or does this fall under conservatives confronting us?

#29 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-01-19 11:55 AM | Reply

www.youtube.com

#30 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-19 11:55 AM | Reply

Not only was the pastor ICE, he was the acting director of the ICE St Paul field office.

"The website of St. Paul-based Cities Church lists David Easterwood as a pastor, and his personal information appears to match that of the David Easterwood identified in court filings as the acting director of the ICE St. Paul field office. Easterwood appeared alongside DHS Secretary Kristi Noem at a Minneapolis press conference last October."

abcnews.go.com

Of course now Trump will use this to increase attacks on Minnesota.

#31 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-19 12:01 PM | Reply

"ICE, is ushering in the Christmas season by launching immigration raids inside churches across the country."

Where's all the outrage?

The cries of "despicable"?

Again. This is why democrats lose. They're more interested in being offended by communities trying to rid themselves of ICE than they are of the actions taken by ICE.

#32 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-19 12:04 PM | Reply

I would like to protest Major B's self-serving headline, lol.

It's not just libs protesting ICE, it's a lot of different Americans.

The original article is from Mediate, and I pretty much agree with the way they laid it out; ending with old guy who agrees with the protests, but not in a church during a service.

That wasn't the way to expose the pastor if he was indeed an informant for ICE.

But I also don't blame the protestors for trying to out the guy, and it's not surprising that people mistakes; happens all the time.

Wouldn't be surprised if Lemon was the one who set this up.

#33 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-19 12:07 PM | Reply

Your either-or nonsense is giving Trump/Noem what they want on multiple levels.

Figure it out. Please.

#34 | Posted by YAV at 2026-01-19 12:07 PM | Reply

#34 was for Clownshack's #32.

That wasn't the way to expose the pastor if he was indeed an informant for ICE.
But I also don't blame the protestors for trying to out the guy, and it's not surprising that people mistakes; happens all the time.
Wouldn't be surprised if Lemon was the one who set this up.

Exactly!

#35 | Posted by YAV at 2026-01-19 12:08 PM | Reply

I hope they perp walk Lemon for violating the FACE Act like biden did anti-abortion protestors

#36 | Posted by HanoverFist at 2026-01-19 12:10 PM | Reply

"ICE, is ushering in the Christmas season by launching immigration raids inside churches across the country."

"Where's all the outrage?"

It's okay when ICE disrupts church services.
--Republicans

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-19 12:12 PM | Reply

Gotta keep up the decorum!!!

Can't do anything that offends!!!

Meanwhile ICE keeps attacking Americans and you all sit around pontificating. Writings strongly worded condemnations.

It would be funny, if it weren't so sad.

#38 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-19 12:13 PM | Reply

Your either-or nonsense is giving Trump/Noem what they want on multiple levels.

Trump is already doing whatever he wants.

What's your plan? Play dead and hope everything goes well in November?

#39 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-19 12:16 PM | Reply

your false choice bs doesn't help you.

#40 | Posted by YAV at 2026-01-19 12:17 PM | Reply

#31

Oops...sounds like he's an Agent of Evil alright.

How people and societies treat the poor, the hungry, the immigrant, the foreigner, and the stranger are among the most important aspects of biblical teaching from the beginning of the OT to the end of the NT.

And there's absolutely no mealy-mouthed way around that; the reason the Hebrews were given over to slavery in Egypt for 400 years was so they could learn how NOT to treat all those I listed above, according to the texts.

Now, obviously in today's world, they never learned that lesson.

"My people are a stiff-necked people."

#41 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-19 12:17 PM | Reply

The people of Minnesota made their choice and I support it.

You and Boaz can condemn them and call them despicable all you want.

Trump loves it.

#42 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-19 12:18 PM | Reply

People love their pastors, and pastors all love each other. This was a stupid move. But thanks for the added ICE supports.

#43 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-01-19 12:22 PM | Reply

Which is worse boaz, a few rando invading a church or the federal government invading a church?

#44 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-01-19 12:23 PM | Reply

- It's okay when ICE disrupts church services.
--Republicans
#37 | Posted by snoofy

Their duplicity is never ending.

#45 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-19 12:24 PM | Reply

Clownshack plays with men's anal openings and supported killing dead babies, of course he wouldn't find it despicable.

#46 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-01-19 12:26 PM | Reply

People love their pastors, and pastors all love each other.
#43 | Posted by fortfisher

Christian Pastor loves his neighbor so much, he's sending them to camps.

#47 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-19 12:32 PM | Reply

Clownshack ... supported killing dead babies

Decapitating a dead baby is that extra step most would skip.

I was definitely sensationalized!

#48 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-19 12:34 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

pastors all love each other.

They especially love young boys.

#49 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-19 12:35 PM | Reply

The website of St. Paul-based Cities Church lists David Easterwood as a pastor, and his personal information appears to match that of the David Easterwood identified in court filings as the acting director of the ICE St. Paul field office. Easterwood appeared alongside DHS Secretary Kristi Noem at a Minneapolis press conference last October.

If true then Fug him.

Good Trouble justified.

#50 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-19 12:36 PM | Reply

Thanks Clownshack for the link in #31.
I still would have preferred the protest be outside, especially with posters of the pastor with Noem and calling him out! Let everyone that goes to that church see exactly who is "leading" them. What a scumbag.

So many churches are part of that bullssit "christian" nationalism facist garbage. The Charlie Kirk crap-version of "christianity."

#51 | Posted by YAV at 2026-01-19 12:43 PM | Reply

Decapitating a dead baby is that extra step most would skip.

LMAO!

#52 | Posted by YAV at 2026-01-19 12:45 PM | Reply

I still would have preferred the protest be outside, especially with posters of the pastor with Noem and calling him out!

Agreed!

A poorly executed protest.

But the Good Trouble was fully justified.

#53 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-19 12:51 PM | Reply

I don't know if this has been posted yet, but:

www.youtube.com

#54 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-19 12:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

There's different ways to go about this.

But I'm going to continue to support the actions of the people who took them.

The community spoke and I'm here for it.

I do agree. Trump and Noem will escalate the situation.

#55 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-19 01:00 PM | Reply

#3 Yeah. You're 100% correct, Major DEI Boazo.

Storming a church service is just despicable.

Hell, it is even happening in your own backyard.

Why, even just the prospect of storming a church service is nothing but despicable.

Have you gone all bleeding heart, Major DEI Boazo?

Thanks for bringing these despicable acts to our attention, Major DEI Boazo.

You're doing God's work.

#56 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-19 01:07 PM | Reply

#46 PhartPhisher pharts out his latest defecation for all (at least for those who don't have him plonked) to see.

But, PhartPhisher, just exactly how does someone kill a dead baby?

#57 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-19 01:11 PM | Reply

@hatch_craft

Pro tip: If your pastor is an ICE agent, you're at a klan rally. Hope that helps.

#58 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-19 01:14 PM | Reply

#41 Corky posts, ""My people are a stiff-necked people.""

ICE recruiting qualification:

Is your neck wider than your head?

Then ICE is for you!

(Thanks, SNL!)

#59 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-19 01:20 PM | Reply

how does someone kill a dead baby?

#57 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-19

Ask your mom, that wasn't a dead puppy in the water bucket. It was your sister.

#60 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-01-19 01:41 PM | Reply

It's been too long since you've been slapped in the mouth.

#61 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-19 01:42 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#60 - That's the way you show 'em you're PRO-LIFE, Fortfisher! /snark

#62 | Posted by YAV at 2026-01-19 01:42 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#60 PhartPhisher pharts out another defecation for all (at least those who don't have him plonked) to see.

As for dead puppies, puppy perforation is the bailiwick of the Trumpf and his minions.

Now, once again, how does someone kill a dead baby?

#63 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-19 01:47 PM | Reply

BoAasJangles, the complete Chumper

#64 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-19 02:28 PM | Reply

Shooting an unarmed American citizen in the face because you're a fat fascist coward is unacceptable, dumb fuck.

#65 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-19 02:29 PM | Reply

@thislittlereadingcorner

The protestors who boldly disrupted the church service to call out the hypocrisy of the ICE agent masquerading as a pastor on Sundays did what Jesus would have done himself.

#66 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-19 02:37 PM | Reply

#66 100% Clown.

I do believe that you applied to this situation what was written in Matthew 21, Mark 11, Luke 19, and John 2, correctly.

Bravo!

#67 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-19 02:43 PM | Reply

... "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

Ridiculous, do you guys even study the Constitution?

You morons, this like saying MAGAtS can disrupt a Mosque because they are protesting.

Biden put people in jail under the FACE act, does anyone here understand American freedoms, at all?

The FACE Act (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994) is a U.S. federal law making it illegal to use force, threats, or physical obstruction to prevent people from obtaining or providing reproductive health services or exercising religious freedom at places of worship.

#68 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-19 03:04 PM | Reply

peoplesworld.org

I am sure Boaz will be along to condemn this. Or does this fall under conservatives confronting us?

#28 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS

A_MORON FYI: This is a whataboutism

#69 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-19 03:06 PM | Reply

The bible doesn't concern itself with societal treatment, the bible is about the individual only. This ruse is typical of people that don't understand the bible and want to use it as a cudgel against those that don't conform to their authoritarian point of view.

#70 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-19 03:09 PM | Reply

#66 - I like that. That's a great way to look at it.

#71 | Posted by YAV at 2026-01-19 03:17 PM | Reply

Sorry to go off earlier.

Didn't mean to be my usual dickish self to you who I actually enjoy reading posts from and agree with.

#72 | Posted by Clownshack at 2026-01-19 03:25 PM | Reply

#70

from his book, "How to Post Complete and Utter Nonsense in One Easy Lesson".

22 Bible Verses on Welcoming Immigrants

sojo.net

#73 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-19 03:29 PM | Reply