This guy Lemon thought he could he could tailgate a gang that raided a church while parishoners were praying. His action was basedon the claim that he was a journalist following a story. WRONG!Lemon was not a journalist, but an active participant in disrupting, threating and demonizing those in attendance during an active service in the HOUSE OF GOD.
Don Lemon arrested on federal charges over church protest
What to know about charges against Don Lemon tied to Minnesota church protest
Protesters interrupted a service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., on Jan. 18, to demonstrate against one of the pastors who reportedly served as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer.
What is the FACE Act?
A grand jury indicted Lemon and eight other defendants on two charges under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which includes places of worship.
The 1994 law bars “force or force of threat” that impedes a person’s ability to exercise their right to religious freedom inside a place of worship and prohibits damage to the spaces.
suffered “bodily injury” during the protest.
The FACE Act was originally proposed in Congress to protect people seeking reproductive health services, and it has typically been used in prosecuting protesters who block entrances to medical clinics providing abortions. During the bill’s consideration, an amendment was added to protect religious freedoms as well.
Under the law’s penalties, first-time violators could face fines or up to a year in jail. People found to have violated the Act more than once could face more severe penalties.
We are witnessing a breakdown of public order. Seattle, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Chicago are controlled by Liberal anti-American ANTIFA entities, many of which are paid by Soros and and company. But don’t be misled, these revolutionaries are for the complete destruction of the United States.
The Hate from these Perps is beyond belief. They are emulating the Revolutionaries from days gone by; think Lenin, Marx, Che, Mao, Fidel, and Maduro. These authoritarian pukes will not stop until the Constitution is up in flames.
With abandon they are attacking Federal agents, such as ICE and Homeland Security. There will be a breaking point when conservative judges step in to halt the mayhem. Secondly, SCOTUS will weigh in on the legality of the assault on Federal Officers.
LAPD arrests violent agitators after protests erupt outside federal detention center in Los Angeles
LAPD arrested multiple agitators after crowd threw bottles and rocks at officers during ‘ICE Out Everywhere’ demonstrations
Los Angeles police arrested multiple violent agitators after issuing dispersal orders as protests erupted across the city Friday evening.
Thousands of protesters met in front of City Hall in the afternoon, before many marched to the federal detention center, where a mob of violent agitators swarmed the area, pushing a large construction dumpster and blocking the entrance to the building’s loading dock.
LAPD shared video on social media of the unrest, adding in a separate post that authorities had deployed pepper balls and tear gas to disperse the crowd.
“We had hoped that demonstrations today would be peaceful, however, as you can see in this video, the violent agitators invited LAPD due to their actions,” the department wrote.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said during a news conference Friday evening that five arrests had been made for failure to disperse. LAPD did not immediately confirm how many individuals had been arrested.
LAPD said one person was arrested after allegedly using a slingshot to fire hard metal objects at officers.
The unrest came as cities across the country took part in “ICE Out Everywhere” protests in the wake of the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good involving federal agents in Minneapolis.
This is a common description of what he was doing on a Minneapolis street Saturday, when a confrontation with federal immigration agents ended in his tragic shooting.
But if Pretti had been a mere protester, he’d very likely be alive today.
Now that we’ve seen videos of an earlier struggle with federal agents and learned more about the organized nature of the anti-ICE resistance, it’s become clear that the better word for Pretti was agitator, or perhaps even operative.
A protester, as typically understood, is someone who is making a point, often as part of a gathering of other like-minded people and, usually but not always, in opposition to something.
He might go to Union Square Park to hear speeches from bullhorns whenever something happens that outrages the left.
He might march against the Iraq War, or the Vietnam War — or in favor of Hamas.
This kind of activity is not to everyone’s taste — personally, I hate the drums and the chants — but there is no doubt that it is a legitimate form of political advocacy.
If Pretti was an “observer,” in the euphemism preferred by anti-ICE politicians and activists, he was observing how much unhinged behavior he could get away with.
There’s no doubt that at this event, he was the violent instigator.
After Pretti damaged the vehicle, agents got out and pushed him to the ground.
For all the talk of ICE being the equivalent of the Gestapo, they didn’t even bother to arrest him, despite his having committed a crime.
If he’d been arrested and charged, Pretti might never have shown up at the other ICE operation and might still be with us today.
That Pretti, we now know, made it a practice to court violent encounters with federal agents while armed was incredibly irresponsible.
He was fortunate that the first struggle didn’t escalate into something much more hazardous to him, and to others, if an agent had noticed his gun.
The firearm wouldn’t have been an issue in the second incident, meanwhile, if he’d really been protesting.
If that were the case, he would have stayed on the sidewalk and held up a sign, or chanted “ICE Go Home” — and the officers might have been annoyed, but there never would have been an interaction to potentially go so catastrophically wrong.
The calculation in Minneapolis, though, has been that this kind of benign activity is less effective than direct action.
And unfortunately — with public opinion swinging against Operation Metro Surge — this assessment looks to be accurate.
Alex Pretti confronting a federal agent in Minneapolis before he was fatally shot.AP
Why simply express a point of view when you can act to stop arrests and to create a hostile, threatening environment for agents?
This doesn’t mean that Pretti got what he deserved, or that the officers acted appropriately.949
It does mean that state and city officials should have been telling people not to “monitor” DHS activity, but to stay well clear of legitimate law-enforcement activities.
Reasonable people can disagree about the desirability of the goal that Pretti was pursuing.
But there’s no doubt about how he was going about it, and that it didn’t involve conventional protest.
Ilhan Omar was on the receiving end of a SHIT SHOW, compliments of a disgruntled citizen from Minneapolis. While giving a speech, the Illegal Alien, that is Omar, was sprayed in unknown substance.
Alleged Ilhan Omar attacker hinted at town hall plans in cryptic texts to neighbor: ‘I might get arrested’
The maniac who attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar with a mystery liquid at a Minnesota town hall meeting had hinted in a cryptic text to a neighbor that he “might get arrested” at the event.
Anthony Kazmierczak, 55, allegedly charged at the lefty congresswoman Tuesday night as she stood at the podium and called for abolishing ICE and sprayed an amber-colored, foul-smelling liquid from a syringe in her direction.
Days before the chaotic town hall, Kazmierczak’s neighbor Brian Kelley recalled that Kazmierczak asked if he could watch his dog when he went to see Omar speak — and hinted that something would happen at the event.
“He said, ‘I’m going to this Omar thing.’ I’m like, Omar what? He said, ‘This town hall thing.’ And he said, ‘I might get arrested,’” Kelley told The Post.
After Kazmierczak sprayed Omar, she chased him down before he was tackled and removed from the Urban League Twin Cities facility in Minneapolis.
Kazmierczak was arrested by Minneapolis Police Department officers and booked into Hennepin County Jail for 3rd degree assault, according to a department spokesman.
Kelley said that his neighbor has been “heavily medicated” due to a car wreck that impacted his spine years ago.
The crash left him “not very physically able to do much.”
“He’s also been diagnosed with Parkinson’s,” the neighbor said, noting, “He’s only 55.”Kelley described Kazmierczak, who shared photos supporting President Trump on Facebook, as a “pretty conservative guy” who “doesn’t like Omar.”
“He doesn’t say much about stuff, but he’ll send articles and posts about different things,” the neighbor said.
“I didn’t take him seriously. I’m surprised, but not overly surprised,” the neighbor added. “I figured when he said he was going to go to the town hall, he’d stand up and say something stupid. I can’t imagine him assaulting or spraying somebody.”
Omar asked for a napkin after she was sprayed with the liquid, which people around her said smelled terrible.
She was not injured and continued speaking afterwards, despite aides urging her to seek medical attention.
The trouble maker of trouble makers, Obama give lip by sprouting dhiarrea from da mout. Remember this POS gradulated from Columbia, a hotbed of antismemitism. In fact the president resigned under the pseudo Palestinian violence on campus targeting Jews. Imagine if this campaign was against Blacks. Obama would have spoken up, but Jews, no problem.
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
Obama’s core values are at odds with the Constitution. He is anti-American, anti-Democracy, anti-Christian, and anti-White.But he is for Islam, DEI, Somalis, the Trans movement, pseudo Palestinians, Muslims and the takeover of America by Illegals which he helped bring into America.
The facts speak louder than words. The Minneapolis Perp, goes to a rally with a nine millimeter firearm, that is loaded, plus he alleged to have two magazines filled to the brim with rounds. On the face of it one can interpret his motive as mayhem, destruction and murder. If he wasn’t shot dead, many innocent people would have been killed. But don’t take our word for it, let’s go to the video tape.
The skirmish that led to Saturday’s fatal shooting of an agitator by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis and the response that followed were driven by a complex network of far-left organizations with a wide range of causes, a Fox News Digital investigation found.
A coordinated web of encrypted chats, street alerts and tracking of ICE “Abductors” in a sophisticated database reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that agitators were already mobilized at the scene where 37-year-old Alex Pretti (a Perp looking for trouble) was killed minutes before any shots were fired.
“Multiple vehicles with many agents appear to be staging there,” the alert continued. “One confirmed ICE vehicle seen was a maroon Dodge Durango [plate number], but it has driven away northbound on Nicollet.” Fox News Digital has redacted the Florida license plate number included in the original message.
ICE Assistant Director Marcos Charles said Sunday that the violence on the streets was “not a coincidence,” considering the “chaos and mayhem” that agitators are fomenting in Minneapolis. At the same press conference, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) Commander-at-Large Greg Bovino confirmed that Pretti was “on the scene several minutes” before the fatal shooting.
Video of the scene shows that as Pretti stepped into the middle of Nicollet Avenue to direct traffic, fellow agitators could be heard blowing whistles to alert locals that ICE officers were around. Soon after, Pretti ended up in a street confrontation with CBP agents, across the street from Glam Doll Donuts outside a worn storefront marked “NEW AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER,” a nonprofit focused on immigration entry programs for Somalis.
Within minutes, at about 10:05 a.m. ET, at least one CBP agent shot Pretti, killing him.
Using a red phone emoji to signal an all-points alert, a message blasted out: “☎️ easy. URGENT: observers urgently requested at glam doll donuts @ 26th & nicollet [sic],” the alert continued. “an observer has been shot by ice, unknown condition, emts [emergency medical technicians] present, please be safe. EDIT: medics requested to join perimeter in case agents start gassing. be aware there are many agents and mpd [Minneapolis Police Department] officers present.”
Within minutes, far-left activists descended on Nicollet Avenue. Soon after, a video showed corrugated boxes of supplies apparently lined up on a Minneapolis sidewalk for protesters, including boxes marked “DESINER MASKS” [sic] and “FREE WINTER HATS,” next to piles of bottled water.
Within hours, socialist leaders turbocharged their “rapid responders” in Minneapolis and mobilized street protesters from New York City to Los Angeles.
Media outlets, including CNN and MSNOW, described “angry protesters” but failed to identify the ideological networks behind the mobilization, even as protesters flashed their signs with their logos and names, touting socialism, communism and Marxism, on camera.
The Minneapolis activation marked the beginning of an almost instantaneous weekend surge by far-left organizations, including hardened socialist and communist groups operating in an ecosystem that national security experts describe as an insurgent-style operation designed to exploit tragedy to wage a domestic political war.
The strategy mirrors past mobilizations, including the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing in May 2020, and exploits well-intentioned public sympathy by rapidly framing Pretti — an intensive care unit nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital — as a symbol of resistance, much like Renee Good, the first victim of an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
Just as they responded in real-time to mobilize “comrades” to march on the streets within 12 hours of the U.S. arrest of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro in early January, socialist, communist and Marxist-Leninist groups now frame their activation as an action within the “belly of the beast” against the “hyperimperialism” of the United States.
Videos of Alex Pretti shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis contradict Trump official claims
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The Department of Homeland Security claimed Alex Pretti “approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun” and “violently resisted” when agents attempted to disarm him.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem defended the agent who shot Pretti, saying he fired “defensive” shots after the victim violently brandished a gun.
Bystander videos verified by CNBC, filmed from different angles, appear to tell a different story.
On Saturday, Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse and U.S. citizen, was shot and killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. There’s a wide gap between what Americans have seen of the shooting and what federal officials are telling them.
Soon after the shooting, Department of Homeland Security officials rushed to defend the officers involved, claiming the victim “approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun” and that when federal agents attempted to disarm him, “the suspect violently resisted.”
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem defended the Border Patrol agent who shot Pretti, saying in a news conference that the agent fired “defensive” shots after the victim violently brandished a gun. “The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently,” Noem said.
In a separate news conference, Greg Bovino, Border Patrol commander at large, claimed Pretti may have wanted to do “maximum damage” and “massacre law enforcement.”
But videos taken by bystanders, filmed from several different angles, tell a different story.
In the first video verified by CNBC, protesters can be heard honking their horns on an urban Minneapolis street, while the video’s author records through a car windshield as the car moves.
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GRAPHIC WARNING: Video shows moments before federal immigration agents fatally shoot man in Minnesota
At 15 seconds, the camera pans to the left to show a man on the side of the street wearing a brown jacket and tan pants (believed to be Alex Pretti) holding up what appears to be a phone while being confronted by two federal agents.
Pretti steps backwards away from the confrontation while appearing to yell at an agent.
At 21 seconds, the person filming the video drives past the confrontation, and the camera swings to the other side of the street as someone in the car yells profanities.
In a second video verified by CNBC, protesters can be heard blowing whistles and honking their horns at federal agents in a video on a cold Minneapolis street.
At seven seconds, the video shows a man dressed in tactical gear believed to be a federal agent shove a woman wearing a brown jacket and black leggings in the back near the side of the street. She doesn’t fall but moves several feet away because of the shove.
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GRAPHIC WARNING: Federal immigration agents confront man moments before fatal shooting
The camera briefly shifts to the middle of the street before going back to the confrontation on the side at 11 seconds. The agent is face-to-face with one woman wearing a long cream jacket and charcoal pants. Next to her is a man in a brown jacket and tan pants believed to be Pretti, and next to him is the woman in brown jacket, black leggings who was shoved seconds ago.
At 12 seconds in the second video, the agent shoves the woman wearing the cream jacket to the ground. Pretti puts himself between the agent and the woman, who is on her back in a snowbank on the side of the road.
At 14 seconds, the agent starts spraying Pretti in the face with a chemical agent. Pretti covers his face and turns away from the officer. Other agents wearing vests approach the confrontation.
At 22 seconds, several agents are struggling with Pretti, attempting to bring him to the ground. He appears to fall to the ground, and at 28 seconds you see one agent apparently swinging a punch at his head while Pretti is down.
At this point, bystanders are recording, and whistles are making noise constantly.
By 38 seconds, at least six agents seem to have restrained the man believed to be Pretti on the ground.
One agent appears to take a weapon from Pretti and quickly walks away while holding the gun. A gunshot is heard at 40 seconds. It is unclear if the man holding the gun fired the shot. Following the first shot, more gunshots are heard in quick succession.
In a third video verified by CNBC, taken by someone on the street near the incident, protesters are blowing whistles at federal agents.
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GRAPHIC WARNING: Video shows moment federal immigration agents shoot man in Minnesota
At 25 seconds, a man wearing a brown jacket and tan pants believed to be Pretti is holding his hand up in the middle of the street. He waves a car past and then starts walking. The camera then shifts away for a moment to a snowbank. A protester can be heard shouting, “What is wrong with you?”
At 33 seconds into the third video, Pretti has his arm around a woman in a dark green jacket and black leggings, apparently attempting to help her. He steps in front of a federal agent closing in on a woman who is on her back in the snowbank on the side of the road.
At 40 seconds, Pretti has his hand up to a federal agent who is spraying him with some kind of chemical agent. Two agents drag him onto his back and more agents join in a circle around the man in tan pants. A struggle takes place on the ground, with six agents surrounding the man in tan pants.
At 60 seconds, one of the agents can be seen stepping back from the confrontation and he draws his gun and points it at Pretti.
At 1:01, a single shot can be heard, followed by several in quick succession. The man on the ground, Pretti, slumps down.
Amid screams, at 1:04, another flurry of gunshots can be heard.
At no point in any of the three videos shown here does Alex Pretti brandish a weapon or appear to threaten federal immigration agents before the confrontation begins, as was claimed by DHS Sec. Noem and others in the Trump administration.
One video also appears to show a federal officer removing a weapon from Pretti while he’s being restrained by agents on the ground before any shots are fired.
Pretti is a lawful gun owner and owns a permit for his weapon.
Misfire of victim’s gun could have triggered fatal ICE shooting
That, in turn, may have “spooked” the other Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at the scene into firing a number of rounds at Pretti, 37, as he lay unarmed and defenceless on the ground.
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