Harmeet Dhillon

So when you look at the case law, people have been convicted under the FACE Act for much, much less than exactly what happened here.

But let's look at the words of the protesters themselves.

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.