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DOJ Now Investigating Disgraced Don Lemon and Radical Anti-ICE Mob for Potential Criminal Violations Following Minneapolis Church Disruption

A full-blown assault on Christian worship unfolded Sunday morning in Minnesota as a radical anti-ICE mob stormed a church service, shut down prayer, and harassed parishioners while disgraced former CNN host Don Lemon live-streamed the chaos.

The mob descended on the sanctuary because the church’s pastor reportedly also serves as a field director with ICE.

Lemon telegraphed his stunt the day before, boasting on Instagram that he was headed to Minnesota to “report on ICE” and urging followers to tune in to his live broadcast.

On Sunday, cameras rolled as agitators shouted down the pastor, disrupted prayer, and scattered congregants.

“This is the beginning of what’s going to happen here,” Lemon said on his stream as the service was derailed. Moments later, he admitted the obvious: “They’ve stopped the service—a lot of people have left.”

This wasn’t reporting. It was participation.

Far-left activist Nekima Levy Armstrong publicly praised the disruption on social media, thanking a roster of agitators and media allies—including Lemon, while declaring “judgment” had come to the “House of God.” The post reads like a victory lap over silencing Christian worship.

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ICE Agent Calls Out MN Protesters for Disrupting Child Sex Offender Arrest

A viral video circulating on social media Sunday appeared to show agitators interfering with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation targeting an alleged child sex offender in Minnesota, prompting responses from federal officials and senior members of President Donald Trump’s administration.

The video, which was posted to X and viewed more than 750,000 times within hours, shows an ICE agent confronting individuals in St. Paul who he said were disrupting federal officers as they attempted to take a suspect into custody.

According to the agent, the interference included repeated honking from nearby vehicles as officers worked to make the arrest.

“We’re here to arrest a child sex offender and you guys are out here honking,” the agent says in the video.

“No, we’re press,” someone off-camera responds.

“We’re not honking.”

The agent then gestures toward a nearby vehicle and continues addressing those filming.

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MN governor threatens to call up National Guard in response to ICE

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) continues to defy President Donald Trump’s efforts to round up and deport dangerous illegal alien criminals. Walz recently declared that Minnesota does not need any further help from the federal government in dealing with political unrest, and he issued a threat.

“I’ve issued a warning order to prepare the Minnesota National Guard. We have soldiers in training prepared to be deployed if necessary,” stated Walz.

This comes after the Minneapolis shooting of Renee Nicole Macklin Good, who was shot after defying orders from federal ICE agents to stop her vehicle, then trying to run them over. Associated Press reported that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem labeled this as an “act of terrorism,” standing firm that ICE was not leaving the state despite the protest of Walz and others.

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Insurrection? Minnesota Democrat Rep. Angie Craig Says Local Cities Telling Business Owners to Call 911 on ICE so Local Police Can “De-Escalate Federal Agents”

Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) said while recently touring immigrant owned businesses in Minnesota she was told that local cities are telling business owners to call 911 if ICE agents enter their business or are in their parking lot so local police can “de-escalate federal agents.”

Craig also said, “Minnesotans, we know how to fight. This is no time for Minnesota nice.”

While ICE is trying to arrest and deport criminal aliens, Democrats wants residents to tie up 911 phone lines to stop ICE. Heart attacks, rapes and murder calls to 911 will apparently just have to wait for the insurrection.

Craig made her comments on the MSNOW show Politics Nation with host Rev. Al Sharpton.

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National Guard Troops Mobilized in Minneapolis as Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act

National Guard troops have been spotted rolling through Minneapolis in Humvees as the chaos and rioting continue over ICE raids. 

President Trump has repeatedly threatened to invoke the insurrection act, stating on Thursday, “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State.”

Trump also previously said he plans to send National Guard troops back into California, Chicago, and Portland, and to invoke the Insurrection Act if necessary.

While departing the White House on Friday, Trump told reporters that he is ready to use the Insurrection Act if necessary, calling it a “very powerful” tool.

However, he said, “I don’t think there’s any reason right now to use it.”

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DOJ Launches a CRIMINAL Investigation into Renee Good’s Widow for Her Alleged Role in ICE Self-Defense Shooting: Report

The widow of Renee Good is now reportedly in legal trouble following her actions in this month’s ICE self-defense shooting in Minneapolis.

NBC News reported on Saturday that the Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into Becca Good for allegedly impeding an ICE agent in the moments before her wife’s death.

The probe will focus on Becca’s ties to far-left activist groups and her actions leading up to her wife’s fatal shooting.

Becca Good’s lawyer released a statement claiming that he had no indication his client was the subject of a criminal investigation.

NBC News reported:

Federal officials are investigating the partner of Renee Nicole Good to determine whether she may have impeded a federal officer moments before he shot and killed Good in Minneapolis, according to two people familiar with the investigation who spoke to NBC News.

The federal investigation into the shooting by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross is focusing more on Becca Good, including what officials said were her possible ties to activist groups, and less on Ross’ actions when he fired into Renee Good’s vehicle during an immigration operation last week, the people said.

Antonio Romanucci, Becca Good’s lawyer, said in a statement Saturday that “there has been no contact from the FBI or federal officials indicating Becca Good is the subject of an investigation.”

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Biden Judge Blocks ICE From Arresting Protestors or Using Crowd Dispersal Tools in Minnesota

A federal judge on Friday issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) and blocked ICE from arresting so-called peaceful protestors.

US District Judge Katherine Menendez, a Biden appointee, also blocked ICE agents from deploying non-lethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools against protestors.

Six individuals sued The DHS, DHS Chief Kristi Noem and other federal agencies to restrict ICE’s tactics.

Approximately 3,000 federal agents have descended on Minnesota to arrest criminal illegal aliens.

Judge Menendez also ruled that protestors may ‘safely’ follow ICE vehicles.

The judge ruled:

Covered Federal Agents are hereby enjoined from:

a. Retaliating against persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity, including observing the activities of Operation Metro Surge.

b. Arresting or detaining persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity, including observing the activities of Operation Metro Surge, in retaliation for their protected conduct and absent a showing of probable cause or reasonable suspicion that the person has committed a crime or is obstructing or interfering with the activities of Covered Federal Officers.

c. Using pepper-spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools against persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity, including observing the activities of Operation Metro Surge, in retaliation for their protected conduct.

d. Stopping or detaining drivers and passengers in vehicles where there is no reasonable articulable suspicion that they are forcibly obstructing or interfering with Covered Federal Agents, or otherwise violating 18 U.S.C. § 111. The act of safely following Covered Federal Agents at an appropriate distance does not, by itself, create reasonable suspicion to justify a vehicle stop.

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Minneapolis Police Chief Admits Unlawful Behavior as Mayor Frey Squirms Next to Him

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara provided details Wednesday evening about a shooting involving a federal agent in north Minneapolis, warning that unlawful activity by a gathered crowd was creating a dangerous and escalating situation.

In a public statement, O’Hara said Minneapolis police were first alerted to the incident shortly before 7 p.m.

“My name is Brian O’Hara. I am the Minneapolis Police Chief. At 6:51 p.m., Minneapolis Police received a 911 call reporting a shooting on the 600 block of two-four Avenue North,” O’Hara said.

According to O’Hara, preliminary information indicates the shooting occurred during a physical confrontation between a federal agent and an adult male outside a residence.

“Preliminary information indicates that there was a struggle with a federal agent in front of the resident,” O’Hara said.

“During the struggle, the federal agent discharged his weapon, striking one adult male.”

O’Hara said the individual who was shot retreated into the residence following the incident and initially refused to exit.

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Democrats Fight To Keep Insurrection Myth Alive In New J6 Committee

The new J6 Committee has started its hearings and, unlike the prior Committee, Republicans have allowed Democrats to select members to sit in opposition. That has led to sharp exchanges, but one of the more interesting occurred between Rep. Harriet Hageman (R., Wyo.) and Jamie Raskin (D., Md.). After Hageman got a witness to admit that no one was charged with incitement, Raskin made the clearly false statement that a few defendants charged with seditious conspiracy was the same thing as incitement. It is not.

Rep. Raskin triggered the confrontation by making a clearly false claim about one of those charged by the Biden Administration: “I would just commend to everybody the testimony of Pamela Hemphill, who was a convicted insurrectionist that was pardoned. She rejected her pardon.”

In reality, Hemphill was charged (like most of the rioters) with relatively minor misdemeanors. She pleaded guilty to one count of demonstrating, picketing, or parading in a Capitol building and received just 60 days in prison, 36 months of probation, and a $500 fine for restitution. She was never charged with insurrection or any felony.

Rep. Hageman pounced on the comment and asked former Justice Department prosecutor Michael Romano whether any January 6 protester had actually been convicted under the federal insurrection statute.

Romano tried to dodge the question but admitted that no one, not Trump nor any rioter, was ever charged with insurrection. Notably, after January 6th, there was a great amount of coverage on Trump and his aides being possibly charged with insurrection or incitement. Despite some of us noting that the speech was clearly protected under the First Amendment, the press portrayed such a charge as credible and heaped coverage on District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine, who announced that he was considering arresting Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, and U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks and charging them with incitement. It never happened. The reason is obvious. It could not be legally maintained.

While the FBI launched a massive national investigation, it did not find evidence of an insurrection. While a few were charged with seditious conspiracy, no one was charged with insurrection.

The Supreme Court later reduced charges further by rejecting obstruction charges in some cases.

Yet that did not stop members and the media from repeating the false mantra that this was an insurrection, despite some of us immediately rejecting it as legally unsustainable. Indeed, Democrats used the false claim to seek to disqualify Trump and dozens of Republicans from ballots.

Now back to the hearing.

Hageman asked the witness, “Mr. Romano, did you prosecute anyone related to January 6th for engaging in an insurrection?” she asked. Romano responded, “No, congresswoman.”

That is when Raskin objected and tried to interrupt the confirmation that, in fact, there never was an insurrection or any such charges.

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Iran Protests Easing After Deadly Crackdown: Rights Groups

Iran’s deadly crackdown appears to have broadly quelled protests for now, according to a rights group and residents, as state media reported more arrests on Friday in the shadow of U.S. threats to intervene if killing continues.

After President Donald Trump’s repeated threats of military action against Iran in support of protesters, fears of a U.S. attack have retreated since Wednesday, when Trump said he’d been told killings in the crackdown were easing.

U.S. allies including Saudi Arabia and Qatar conducted intense diplomacy with Washington this week to prevent a U.S. strike, warning of consequences ‍for the wider region that would ultimately impact the United States, a Gulf official said.

The White House said on Thursday that Trump is ‍closely monitoring the situation on the ground, adding that the president and his team have warned Tehran there would be “grave consequences” if killings linked to its crackdown continue.

Trump understands that 800 scheduled executions were halted, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt added, saying the president was ⁠keeping “all of his options on the table.”

The protests erupted on December 28 over soaring inflation in Iran, whose economy has been crippled by sanctions, before spiraling into one of the biggest challenges yet to the clerical establishment that has run Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

With information ​flows from Iran obstructed by an internet blackout, several residents of Tehran said the capital had been quiet since Sunday. They said drones were flying over the city, where they’d seen no sign of protests on Thursday or Friday.

Iranian-Kurdish rights group Hengaw said that there had been no protest gatherings since Sunday, saying “the security environment remains highly restrictive.”

“Our independent sources confirm a heavy military and security presence ‍in cities and towns where protests previously took place, as well as in several locations that did not experience major demonstrations,” Norway-based Hengaw said in comments to Reuters.

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