The Department of Justice has announced that it is investigating Sunday's disruption of a Baptist Church service by left-wing agitators, including members of Black Lives Matter.
They entered Cities Church in St. Paul and shouted, "ICE out" and "Justice for Renee Good." The protesters allege that one of the church's pastors – David Easterwood – also leads the local ICE field office overseeing the efforts by immigration officials to arrest and deport illegal aliens.
U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said her agency is investigating federal civil rights violations "by these people desecrating a house of worship and interfering with Christian worshippers."
Gary Bauer is president of American Values. He says the hypocrisy of the protestors is unbelievable.
"They are vehement if ICE ever says or goes into a church to arrest an illegal alien. So, I believe the president has ordered that ICE cannot go into a church to do that. But here they turn around and they violate the sanctity of the church by going in to harass the pastor because they believed that he is somehow formally connected with ICE."
Former CNN host Don Lemon was trending on social media Monday after the now-independent journalist was “reporting” from the protest on Sunday.
Don Lemon, shown right, says he found himself on the other end of a phone call from Black Lives Matter over the weekend. He was told to show up outside the church.
He was there to record the mayhem as protests invaded a worship service on the belief that one of the pastors also works for ICE. He told the camera he was not affiliated with the activists, but some of his comments calls his impartiality into question.
“So this is what the First Amendment is about, about the freedom to protest.”
Christian apologist Alex McFarland says there's a reason Lemon was on BLM's list of trusted reporters.
“Don Lemon has a history of anti-Christian bias. He's made so many statements over the years, really marginalizing and lambasting Christianity and conservatives.”
Dhillon called Lemon a "pseudo journalist" because of his presence at the protest and said that he was (quote) "on notice."
McFarland says in a day when independent journalists like John Solomon, Matt Taibbi and Catherine Heridge have revived real investigative and unbiased reporting, Don Lemon has failed to clear the bar.
“To say that he is independent these days. That's a rather charitable way of saying that he doesn't have a job.”
Bauer says this is raw Marxist revolutionary class warfare.
"It's all intended to be the prelude to something really bad and really unthinkable. I'm just glad we've got somebody as smart as President Trump in the Oval Office to figure out what the right response is."
