BREAKING: Don Lemon charged with two felonies in unsealed indictment

The Department of Justice had said that he may be liable for FACE Act violations. It lists as "prohibited activities" anyone who "by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship." The FACE Act prevents the same behavior for "reproductive health services."

The document reads:

"Overt Act # 20: Defendant LEMON told his livestream audience about congregants leaving the Church and about a "young man" who LEMON could see was 'frightened,' 'scared,' and 'crying,' and LEMON observed that the congregants' reactions were understandable because the experience was 'traumatic and uncomfortable,' which he said was the purpose."

"Overt Act # 20: As the operation continued, defendant LEMON acknowledged the nature of it by expressing surprise that the police hadn't yet arrived at the Church, and admitted knowing that 'the whole point of [the operation] is to disrupt.'"

"Overt Act # 22: While the takeover operation was underway, defendant LEMON asked defendant ARMSTRONG, 'Who i s the person that we should talk to? Is there a pastor or something?,' and she pointed toward the front of the Church but noted the pastor 'might have run away.'"

"Overt Act # 24: While talking with the pastor, defendant LEMON stood so close to the pastor that LEMON caused the pastor's right hand to graze LEMON, who then admonished the pastor, 'Please don't push me.'"

"Overt Act # 25: Although the pastor told defendant LEMON and the others to leave the Church, defendant LEMON and the other defendants ignored the pastor's request and did not immediately leave the Church."

Lemon was embedded with a group of agitators in St. Paul on January 18 who stormed the church, harassing and yelling at parishioners. The group was "gearing up for resistance and protest," he said in his live stream before interviewing Nekima Armstrong, who was also arrested. The group was called Operation Pull Up and was intended to "surprise people, catch them off guard, and hold them to account."

Lemon stood in the parking lot outside the church and spoke to agitators, including William Kelly, who was also arrested. Once those agitators disrupted church activities, he went into the church and demanded that the church's pastor speak to him, despite that pastor asking him to leave. He also spoke to others in the church, none of whom wanted to be interviewed and all of whom believed their church service was violated.

He appeared to have coordinated with those activists, even kissing the head of organizer Armstrong. In the parking lot, he filmed them chanting "ICE out of Minnesota." The DOJ was not at first able to charge Lemon as three judges declined to to sign the warrant. The DOJ then convened a Grand Jury which issued an indictment.

Don Lemon Indictment by The Post Millennial

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