A swarm of anti-ICE protesters burst into a St. Paul, Minnesota, church in the middle of Sunday service and accused a pastor of working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The demonstrators with the Racial Justice Network stormed into the Cities Church and called out resident pastor David Eastwood, who they accused of moonlighting as the acting field office director for ICE in Minnesota.
A David Eastwood is listed as an employee with the field office, but it’s still unclear if that is the same man as the Cities Church pastor. The Post has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security to check.
The service disrupters chanted slogans heard at the dozens of other protests that have wreaked havoc around Minneapolis, including some invoking slain anti-ICE activist and mom of three Renee Nicole Good’s name. Others specifically slandered Eastwood for misrepresenting the ideals of his faith through his support for ICE.
“This cannot be a house of God while harboring someone directing ICE agents to wreak havoc on our community. I am a reverend on top of being a lawyer and an activist, so I come here in the power of the almighty God,” one protester, Nekima Levy-Armstrong, told ousted CNN host Don Lemon during his livestream.
Eastwood was not at the Sunday service.
The congregation’s lead pastor, Jonathan Parnell, said the bombardment was “shameful” and asked anyone who wasn’t intending to worship to leave.
The Department of Justice is probing the demonstration at the church for potential violations of civil rights laws, specifically for “interfering with Christian worshippers,” according to a post on X.
DHS reposted one of the videos of the church protest on X.
“Agitators aren’t just targeting our officers. Now they’re targeting churches, too. They’re going from hotel to hotel, church to church, hunting for federal law enforcement who are risking their lives to protect Americans,” DHS wrote.
DHS and Minnesota leaders, namely Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, have repeatedly clashed over ICE’s missions in the Twin Cities.
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BREAKING: DOJ to Charge Don Lemon Under the ‘KKK Act’ for Inciting Church Raid (VIDEO)
Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, has announced that they plan to charge disgraced former CNN anchor Don Lemon under the Ku Klux Klan Act, a Reconstruction-era law enacted to combat terrorist activities by groups like the KKK.
The impending charges stem from Lemon’s involvement when a group of anti-ICE activists stormed a church in Minneapolis, disrupting a religious service and intimidating worshippers, on Sunday.
The Ku Klux Klan Act, formally known as the Enforcement Act of 1871, prohibits conspiracies to threaten, injure, or intimidate individuals to prevent them from exercising their constitutional rights, including the free exercise of religion.
According to reports, Lemon not only accompanied the protesters but had prior knowledge of their plans to target the church, which was hosting a service at the time.
Some have even alleged that he was the one who incited the protesters to target the church.
Before the incident, Lemon is seen in his team’s own footage discussing the “secret operation” with activists, confirming they had the church’s address, and even instructing his staff not to reveal the location.
“We’re not going to give any of the information away,” Lemon says in one clip.
The former CNN anchor also acknowledges, “We don’t know what’s happening. We kind of do, but we don’t know how it’s going to play out, right?”
Upon arrival, he directs the camera, “We are here. I think maybe if you just have it on the church.”
After the incident, Lemon claimed, “I didn’t even know they were going to this church until we followed them there… Once the protest started in the church, we did an act of journalism.”
This apparent lie has fueled the DOJ’s case, with officials arguing that Lemon’s actions went beyond reporting and amounted to active participation in violating the congregants’ civil rights.
On Monday, Dhillon appeared on The Benny Show to explain the legal implications.
“The Klan Act is one of the most important federal civil rights statutes,” Dhillon said. “It makes it illegal to terrorize and violate the civil rights of citizens. Whenever people conspire to do this, the Klan Act can be used.”
She emphasized that the full force of the federal government would be brought to bear on such disruptions, drawing parallels to how the FACE Act has been used against pro-life protesters outside abortion clinics.
“Everyone in the protest community needs to know that the fullest force of the federal government is going to come down and prevent this from happening and put people away for a long time,” Dhillon warned.
As Dhillon noted, if peaceful pro-life grandmas can face felony charges for praying outside clinics, then activists and so-called journalists who disrupt churches should expect the same accountability.
Dhillon also posted the interview and wrote, “To those asking where the arrests are: MN state prosecutors could have made arrests yesterday. The DOJ must first go before a federal judge to obtain an arrest warrant.
She added, “Make no mistake: AG Pam Bondi & The Justice Dept will pursue federal charges in this case.”
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Frightening reality of California’s homeless epidemic laid bare as disease outbreak could threaten LA
An outbreak of deadly bacteria at a Bay Area homeless encampment has sparked urgent calls for action in Los Angeles, with officials warning the disease may already be circulating in the city.
The bacterial disease leptospirosis was found in rats at encampments in the hippie college town of Berkeley, leading health officials there to issue an urgent warning to the homeless to clear out.
Officials told them to relocate at least a third of a mile from the “red zone” encompassing several square blocks as soon as possible. The warning comes as authorities attempted remove the encampment last year but were blocked by a federal judge.
Humans can contract leptospirosis by coming into contact with contaminated water or surfaces.
Flu-like symptoms such as fever, headache and vomiting appear between five and 14 days. If the infection isn’t detected and treated with antibiotics, it leads to organ failure, internal bleeding, meningitis — and death.
“It’s a breeding ground for disease, where you see people living in squalor and surrounded by trash and human waste. It’s a petri dish.”
“The conditions here are the same as they are in Berkeley. It’s only a matter of time before it’s here as well,” LA Councilwoman Traci Park, whose district covers Venice, where homeless encampments have long plagued the iconic boardwalk, told The Post.
The scourge in Berkeley has raised fears the disease is already in LA because the city’s Homeless Services Authority does not test for the bacteria in homeless encampments.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health declined to answer questions about potential outbreaks, instead referring questions to the Homeless Services Authority.
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, a professor at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, said “good public health includes regular, ongoing, monitoring of different vectors” for the disease, like rats and dogs.
“Good public health costs money and must support a variety of trained experts in disease prevention and surveillance,” he told The Post.
In Berkeley, the disease has been detected in several rats and two dogs, posing a potentially fatal threat to people and animals, according to the city’s health department.
Berkeley authorities began removing the encampment in June 2025, but were blocked by a federal judge, who ruled that officials failed to provide proper notice and violated Americans with Disabilities Act protections for disabled homeless residents.
The bacteria thrives in places lacking basic services like indoor plumbing, running water or refrigerated food storage, making encampments prime breeding grounds for an outbreak.
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