Harmeet Dhillon
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First of all, William Kelly
shouted racially charged language within this church and also outside the church.
He made it clear that the white and Christian nature of these people was part of the motivation of harassing them.
Don Lemon himself stated before and after that the purpose of this so-called protest obstruction was to put people in fear and make them uncomfortable and make them traumatize them.
Traumatize them.
And then we have photographs of children crying and their mothers hugging them and moms ushering children out the back and strong Christian men standing up to defend their families.
That is in response to putting them in fear.
And you're absolutely correct.
You're using the word shoot and hands up in a house of God.
You're shouting out and obstructing the purpose for which people are there.
If this isn't a violation of the FACE Act,
I don't know what is.
And I think the law is very clear.
We all feel strongly about it.
I have career prosecutors, nonpartisan prosecutors working on this case.
And by the time we gathered this video evidence and interviewed some witnesses on Sunday and Monday, we had no question that this is a violation of both the FACE Act and for the organizers and people who planned it, the Klan Act as well.
So let me first of all, let me step back for a second.
I am a First Amendment activist and lawyer for more than three decades.
I have litigated numerous First Amendment cases, including to the United States Supreme Court, and won many on behalf of journalists.
I usually represent the journalists in my private practice.