Don Lemon......"journalist".....rotflol.
Posted on 01/30/2026 9:14:55 AM PST by Rummyfan
The long and winding road of Don Lemon's arrest came to an end in Los Angeles overnight. It started at Cities Church in the Twin Cities and wended through three different court venues. The end of the road came at the Grammy Awards, which Lemon apparently had been covering for his YouTube channel.
What a long, strange trip it's been, indeed:
The former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested late Thursday night on charges that he violated federal law during a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minn., his lawyer said, in a case rejected last week by a magistrate judge.
Mr. Lemon has said he was simply reporting as a journalist when he entered the Cities Church on Jan. 18 to observe a demonstration against the immigration crackdown in the area.
The protesters interrupted a service at the church, where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official serves as a pastor, and chanted “ICE out.” Afterward, the Trump administration sought to charge eight people over the episode, including Mr. Lemon, citing a law that protects people seeking to participate in a service in a house of worship.
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Why? He committed crimes. He wasn't just around and covered the event as a "journalist" - he was a participant from start to finish. Plain as day from his own videos he himself posted in the remarks he made leading up to it.
There’s no “First Amendment Rights” to trespass to enter a church facility and disrupt their operations, harass and terrorize the people legitimately using them, including terrorizing children, preventing people from moving freely within, etc.
Don't threaten Don Lemon with a good time
Not sure why all this seems to bring a noose to mind...
The 1st Amendment stops the government from preventing your speech against it.
It has nothing to do with protecting your speech and actions against another person.
Nick Shirley is a free lance journalist. Don Lemon is a free range chicken.
The funniest part is that they have all the video evidence that they took themselves.
Probably his biggest career boost in a decade.
Don Lemon......"journalist".....rotflol.
your right to extend your arm
ends at the other person’s nose
A group from the local United Methodist Church has NO First Amendment right guaranteed to enter a worship service at the local Baptist church, interrupt it, appropriate the facility for the declaration of United Methodist tenets and positions that are different from the Baptists, and accuse the Baptists of any wrongdoing, theologically, morally, socially, or otherwise.
A group from the local Orthodox Presbyterian Church has NO First Amendment right guaranteed to enter a worship service at the local Baptist church, interrupt it, appropriate the facility for the declaration of Orthodox Presbyterian tenets and positions that are different from the Baptists, and accuse the Baptists of any wrongdoing, theologically, morally, socially, or otherwise.
A group from the local Charismatic Church has NO First Amendment right guaranteed to enter a worship service at the local Baptist church, interrupt it, appropriate the facility for the declaration of Charismatic tenets and positions that are different from the Baptists, and accuse the Baptists of any wrongdoing, theologically, morally, socially, or otherwise.
May a Baptist pastor or church invite a Presbyterian (or any non-Baptist minister) to the Baptist church to speak or to conduct some other function? I'm sure it happens every day of the world, somewhere on earth, even somewhere in America.
If visitors slip in a church worship service from the street, not specifically invited, the visitor is usually welcomed. THESE DAYS, however, more and more churches have trained security teams (often armed) observing any persons who just "drop in." Our church has a couple of men who conceal-carry at all times.
We pray for visitors to come in and hear the word of God preached, and specifically the saving Gospel of the Grace of God in Christ.
But any visitor (unless we know them personally and they are in close fellowship with us) must temporarily, while in our facility, be seen and not heard. They can pray silently. They can sing along with us, too. We'll make sure they have a songbook to use along with a copy of the Bible. We will never be unkind. We will try to find every reason for them to remain with us and we strive give the visitor our loving attention, not only our glaring attention. We want to minister.
We have testimony services, too, in which any person, even visitors may testify. But no person can just take over. It requires wisdom from Above and the true leadership of God's Spirit to have a Biblically sound and Christ-honoring testimony meeting. No, nobody would be allowed to take over.
The church facility is PRIVATE PROPERTY owned by the church congregation and is controlled or managed by certain leaders according to bylaws.
Our church is NOT A PUBLIC FREE SPEECH VENUE. OUR CHURCH WILL CONTROL THE SPEECH IN THE CHURCH STRUCTURE, AND ON ITS CURTILAGE, AND ON ANY PART OF ITS GROUNDS.
Exactly... Now help me go point that out to all the Leftist morons running around out there...
You’d think... Amazing how the Left completely ignores things like the written word and basic logic...
My only problem with his arrest is if it was under the FACE act which I strongly believe is in and of itself unconstitutional.
The Lemon Law.
Reality doesn’t faze a true Leftist. Often times if you respond at all, it isn’t going to be for their benefit, but potentially for the benefit of someone else who may see your response.
“My only problem with his arrest is if it was under the FACE act which I strongly believe is in and of itself unconstitutional.”
SCOTUS disagrees.
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And he just happened to decide to go to church that day at a random church with all his equipment and just happened to encounter the protest there.
Right?
Heh, he heard the slammer serves a wicked pepper steak.
Don hates white people so much that he married one.
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