Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon concisely deconstructs Don Lemon’s claimed First Amendment immunity to violate the law. There is no such immunity. The only question is whether Lemon’s conduct in connection with the Cities Church riot violated the law:
“Whether you’re a journalist or not, you can’t break into a church. You can’t make children cry. You can’t prevent parents from getting to their children in Sunday school to rescue them. You can’t make elderly women run out a side door that actually had a cone in front of it because it was dangerous to go in and out that door slip and injure themselves and have to go to the emergency room. That’s all illegal…”
And yet, in repeating Lemon’s First Amendment shibboleth, the mainstream media have given us yet another display of the hive midn at work.
NEW: @AAGDhillon Says Several Anti-Ice Agitators Involved in Minnesota Church ‘Attack’ Have Claimed To Be Journalists In Attempt to Shield Themselves From Prosecution
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— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) February 5, 2026
