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Don Lemon Labels Parishioners Of Church Stormed By Anti-ICE Rioters ‘Entitled White Supremacists’

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Former CNN host Don Lemon doubled down Monday on his support of left-wing rioters who disrupted a church service in Minnesota, implying the parishioners were racists.

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon told podcaster Benny Johnson Monday that Lemon could potentially be charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, despite him claiming he was engaging in journalism. Lemon told left-wing podcaster Jennifer Welch on an episode of “I’ve Had It Podcast News” that he was being targeted by the Trump administration for being black and gay during the podcast, during which he took aim at the parishioners of Cities Church.

“I think that there is obviously… racism in it. The whole point of it is that they’re trying to they’re detaining people on the streets because of accents and the color of their skin and they’re also targeting they’re targeting people of color and black people as well as brown people,” Lemon claimed. “So there is a certain degree of racism there and there’s a certain degree of entitlement.”

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“I think people who are you know in the religious groups like that, it’s not the type of Christianity that I practice, but I think that they’re entitled and that that entitlement comes from supremacy, white supremacy, and they think that this country was built for them, that it is a Christian country, when actually we left England because we wanted religious freedom,” Lemon continued. “It’s religious freedom, but only if you’re a Christian and only if you’re a white male, pretty much.”

Lemon broadcast footage of the disruption on his YouTube channel, arriving at Cities Church about 40 minutes into a lengthy Sunday livestream during which he greeted Nekima Levy Armstrong, who led the group who stormed the church.

“She has been doing this since George Floyd; Dante Wright and others where they surprise people, catch them off guard and hold them to account,” Lemon said.

While Lemon denied Sunday that he knew the church would be targeted, at the start of his livestream, he appeared to know where the group was going.

“These operations are surprise operations,” Lemon said at the start of his Sunday livestream. “Again, can’t tell you where they’re going and where we’re gathered right now.”