{"id":7288,"date":"2026-02-28T09:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=7288"},"modified":"2026-02-28T09:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:07:33","slug":"doj-charges-30-more-people-involved-in-storming-minnesota-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=7288","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Charges 30 More People Involved in Storming Minnesota Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged roughly 30 more people who were involved in storming a Minnesota church in January, adding that 25 of them had already been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/agpambondi\/status\/2027449934337696099\">post<\/a> on X, that the DOJ had \u201cunsealed an indictment charging 30 more people who took part\u201d in the storming of Cities Church in St. Paul. Bondi warned that if people \u201cattack a house of worship\u201d the DOJ will find them and prosecute them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, @thejusticedept unsealed an indictment charging 30 more people who took part in the attack on Cities Church in Minnesota,\u201d Bondi wrote in her post. \u201cAt my direction, federal agents have already arrested 25 of them, with more to come throughout the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bondi added: \u201cYOU CANNOT ATTACK A HOUSE OF WORSHIP. If you do so, you cannot hide from us\u00a0\u2014 we will find you, arrest you, and prosecute you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bondi\u2019s post comes after former CNN host Don Lemon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2026\/01\/18\/watch-sanctuary-city-radicals-invade-church-sanctuary\/\">recorded<\/a> a live YouTube video of anti-ICE protesters storming Cities Church, after finding out that one of the pastors also worked for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p>\n<p class=\"a9d-pre\">In his video, Lemon clarified that he was \u201cnot part of the group,\u201d but that he was there as a journalist \u201cphotographing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a9d\"\/>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"\/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2027449934337696099\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGPamBondi\/status\/2027449934337696099\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News\u2019s Katherine Hamilton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/01\/19\/doj-investigates-violations-of-face-act-kkk-act-after-don-lemons-anti-ice-invasion-of-minnesota-church\/\">reported<\/a> that the DOJ later revealed that it was looking into \u201cpotential violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and the \u2018KKK Act&#8217;\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The FACE Act is a 1994 law that \u201cprohibits the use or threat of force and physical obstruction that injures, intimidates, or interferes with a person seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services or to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.\u201d The act was written to equally protect abortion clinics, pro-life pregnancy resource centers, and churches; however, data indicates 97 percent of FACE Act cases since the law\u2019s inception have been against pro-life advocates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During an interview on <em>The Benny Show<\/em>, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon spoke about how \u201cthe Biden, DOJ used the Klan Act conspiracy charges tacked onto the FACE Act in the case of protests outside abortion clinics to bring much longer sentences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, there are a number of tools available to us. Who funded this? What other crimes may have occurred? Was there a use of the wires or the mail in preparing for this event?\u201d Dhillon added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe original nine defendants in the case,\u201d which include Lemon, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2026\/01\/30\/nolte-disgraced-former-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-arrested-for-church-riot\/\">arrested<\/a> in January and charged with federal civil rights crimes, \u201chave all pleaded not guilty,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/doj-30-more-defendants-charged-anti-ice-protest-at-minnesota-church\/\">according<\/a> to CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>While the indictment \u201caccuses all 39 people of violating two civil rights laws,\u201d there are no \u201cadditional criminal charges\u201d added, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/27\/doj-charges-30-more-people-involved-in-storming-minnesota-church\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged roughly 30 more people who were involved in storming a Minnesota church in January, adding that 25 of them had&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}