MN - Journalist Don Lemon arrested for church protest, Minneapolis, 18 Jan 2026

[keek]

You feel that way. But how do other journalists feel?

SPJ strongly condemns arrests of journalists covering anti-ICE demonstration in Minnesota | Society of Professional Journalists

www.spj.org

I trust a journalism to evaluate quality journalism over a stranger on the internet.

MOO

Especially very in a camp that is closed to reality. IMO

 

[Inthedetails]

The Pledge of Allegiance was written by Francis Bellamy in the late 1800’s, however there have been many edits to what he originally wrote and God was NOT mentioned in the first drafts of the pledge. The words “One nation under God” weren’t added to it until 1954, when Congress voted on Flag Day to add in that language, during the Cold War.

The Pledge of Allegiance

www.legion.org

The pledge also says “liberty and justice FOR ALL” (and that was in the original pledge written in 1892). But God wasn’t mentioned in the first incarnation of the pledge. And our country was NOT founded on one nation, under God.

The founders were elite, well-read, educated men intune with the Age of Reason/Enlightenment. The founders' views of organized religion was not necessarily the same as the general public (and not necessarily the same as the general church-going public today, tbh). I don't want to veer too much off topic, but, they were deliberate about not installing a national religion.

jmo

 

[Mo Thuairim]

Yes, many were slave owners in the 1700s. None of us here today were. Our nation was founded one nation under God and that has been whittled away. Our current administration is bring back the principles that made the United States the greatest nation in the world! Everyone wants to come here after all.

We all want religious freedom. All Americans. I believe today’s Christian are being minimized.

Everyone wants to come here after all.

I certainly don't want to go there.

Maybe when government goons stop shooting people in the streets I'll consider it again.

 

[Inthedetails]

Saying a silent prayer of thanks for my high-school civics teachers right now.

 

[Ruminations]

The journalist was in the church at the time the woman was injured fleeing the church. For unknown reasons, the journalist has not reported on the woman who was injured due to the loud, disruptive people that were at church on Sunday morning.

It is surprising that the journalist did not report on injuries that occurred during the incident. That seems newsworthy.

We don't know it even happened.

It's is alleged in a dubious charging document that over eager, under credentialed prosecutors finally were able to file (we think- it's not signed) on the third attempt after two strikes.

It is an allegation. It is not proven.

Journalists, if they saw it, would very likely report it. That is one reason I don't believe it is legit. I think we just might learn it was hearsay and conjecture that would never make the trial, even if the case does.

So now, we are reeling way off topic to a broken arm that might have occurred, and might be related to the cities church protest, but we are not discussing the topic of this thread: The arrests of journalists.

MOO

 

[keek]

Everyone wants to come here after all.

I certainly don't want to go there.

Maybe when government goons stop shooting people in the streets I'll consider it again.

Delusional and where do they come from? All wrong. IMO

 

[Inthedetails]

the topic of this thread: The arrests of journalists.

MOO

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Yes!


jmo

 

[otto]

We don't know it even happened.

It's is alleged in a dubious charging document that over eager, under credentialed prosecutors finally were able to file (we think- it's not signed) on the third attempt after two strikes.

It is an allegation. It is not proven.

Journalists, if they saw it, would very likely report it. That is one reason I don't believe it is legit. I think we just might learn it was hearsay and conjecture that would never make the trial, even if the case does.

So now, we are reeling way off topic to a broken arm that might have occurred, and might be related to the cities church protest, but we are not discussing the topic of this thread: The arrests of journalists.

MOO

A woman swore under oath that she suffered a broken arm while fleeing the church with crying children.

A journalist was present. A journalist should report on injuries suffered during the loud, disruptive incident in the church. Because the journalist did not report the injury, we should disbelieve that it happened?

paragraph 43; affidavit in support of arrest warrant

 

[Inthedetails]

A woman swore under oath that she suffered a broken arm while fleeing the church with crying children.

A journalist was present. A journalist should report on injuries suffered during the loud, disruptive incident in the church. Because the journalist did not report the injury, we should disbelieve that it happened?

paragraph 43; affidavit in support of arrest warrant

If you really think it is a vital story, contact journalists and ask them to cover it. Rectify the narrative if you think it's wrong. imo

jmopinion

 

[keek]

A woman swore under oath that she suffered a broken arm while fleeing the church with crying children.

A journalist was present. A journalist should report on injuries suffered during the loud, disruptive incident in the church. Because the journalist did not report the injury, we should disbelieve that it happened?

paragraph 43; affidavit in support of arrest warrant

What was it the killer said after killing Renee Good? What was it the murderer of the down on the ground, with the other goons on him, said? Both murdered. F ing B... and 'boo hoo'.. so there you go. IMO

 

[Ruminations]

But you can't compare these. Don Lemon's charges stand on their own. Good's death is no defense. In fact, it will likely be used by the prosecution against him.

Now that is absurd.

Good's murder is going to be used against him?

That doesn't even make sense.

Good's murder was horrific, especially seeing a glove box filled with toys that belong to her 6 year old. But Lemon didn't shoot her.

What happened at cities church was rude, maybe rising to a level of minor charges on the part of the protesters, but I will take being called a nazi over being shot dead everytime. (Hint: being called a nazi hurts less if you are not a nazi.)

But I am simply not following how you are concluding that a murder in the same neighborhood on a different day is somehow going to be evidence that covering a protest as a journalist was a chargeable crime? Please explain.

MOO

 

[Sundog]

If you really think it is a vital story, contact journalists and ask them to cover it. Rectify the narrative if you think it's wrong. imo

jmopinion

The narrative will be rectified at the trial.

imo

 

[otto]

What was it the killer said after killing Renee Good? What was it the murderer of the down on the ground, with the other goons on him, said? Both murdered. F ing B... and 'boo hoo'.. so there you go. IMO

I fail to understand any reason to associate abortion, or killings, with the loud, disruptive incident at a Church on Sunday morning during a schedule religious service. Although the disruptive people were angry about immigration policy, their anger was misdirected and ill-conceived.

 

[Sillybilly]

Sorry, too many alerts coming in. Have to close the thread for a bit folks.