DOJ Considers Charges Against MN Church Protesters AND Former CNN Anchor
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What incident sparked the DOJ's investigation in Minnesota?
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Guaranteed human. Hey there, folks. It is Tuesday, January 20th, and what is going on in Minnesota? You probably saw this trending all day yesterday. Protesters interrupted a Sunday church service. A former CNN anchor is in tow, and now the Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation. With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Robes. How did we get here? This was a mess of an ugly scene that was a mess and uncomfortable for a lot of reasons, but I didn't see this one coming.
Yeah, the story grew and grew and grew, and now it's exploded with threats and promises of criminal charges against the protesters for going into that church. And Don Lemon, that ex-CNN anchor you were just referencing, has been specifically referenced by DOJ officials, and his video, his journalism, is at the center of it all.
It's journalism. You can't see us, but journalism was in quotations as we say that, because that's a big part of the question. But let's go to what the core of the matter is, ropes. We've seen protests. We've seen demonstrations. They have been peaceful in a lot of places. We have seen and excuse me. overwhelmingly they have been peaceful but we have seen confrontations even things that get heated don't sometimes rise to the level of violence this was not violence here however robes this is a pretty incredible heated escalation of what we've been seeing on the streets look there's a lot of stuff folks will tolerate you disrupting for whatever reasons you have you're gonna bust up a church service
Yeah, this was honestly, I hate to say this, but this is the only way I can describe it. This was a new low. And look, protesting peacefully is an important part of being an American and having a free society. That is absolutely everyone's right to stand up for injustice in a peaceful way. But to disrupt a church service and to see the video and to see the... There was a I hate to say this, but a righteousness about the protesters. See what we're doing. We're going up and we're standing up for justice. They believed the pastor, who I don't even think was there at the time, was a part of the ICE operations. That was what the insinuation was. So they were going to go in there because they didn't feel like a member of this church and certainly a leader of this church should be also at the same time.
be affiliated with ICE. And so they felt justified going in. But you see this situation where you've got half of the parishioners praying and trying to make it go away. You have the protesters disrupting. You have Don Lemon going to throw a microphone in the pastor's face. It was tough to watch.
Look, we'll get into their justifications, because everybody has a justification these days, and you might hear it and go, yes, you do what you got to do, including going into a church. But Just saying, I don't know where the line is and where we're going to draw on, because we've got people out there justifying killings as well.
Who was involved in the church protest and what was their justification?
We have people out there justifying violence. Everybody has a justification for what they're doing, and we don't know where it stopped. But this was in St. Paul, yes, one of the Twin Cities there, where the Justice Department is now investigating a protest at this church. It happened on Sunday, in the middle of Sunday church service, and it was disrupted. This is called the Cities Church in St. Paul. Robes, I looked on their website. This is a this is a church has been around 100 plus years there. Now, I couldn't get an idea of how large their membership is. But looking at the video, at least this is a medium sized church. At least this service I saw on Sunday looked like the pews were fairly packed with people.
Yeah, I think, my goodness, after the last few weeks in Minneapolis, people needed a church service. I think that might have even, look, who knows how full their pews are on most Sundays, but certainly we've talked in this country about waning church parishioners. Well, it was nice to see a full church, but unfortunately this erupted.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What incident sparked the DOJ's investigation in Minnesota?
0:00–3:16
2
Who was involved in the church protest and what was their justification?
3:16–4:33
3
How did Don Lemon's role impact the narrative of the protest?
4:33–6:45
4
What laws could apply to the protesters' actions during the church disruption?
6:45–9:13
5
What is the FACE Act and how does it relate to this incident?
9:13–11:57
6
How did the protest affect public perception of the protesters' cause?
11:57–13:59
7
What ethical dilemmas arise from protesting in places of worship?
13:59–16:07
8
What conclusions can be drawn about the implications of this protest?
16:07–26:17
Speakers
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