The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation after protesters interrupted a service at a Minnesota church.
DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon posted on X that the protesters will be investigated for civil rights violations, including desecrating a house of worship.
Dhillon accused former CNN journalist Don Lemon on X of “participating” in the protest and vowed to hold him accountable by charging him via a powerful federal civil rights statute, The "Ku Klux Klan Act."
“A house of worship is not a public forum for your protest! It is a space protected from exactly such acts by federal criminal and civil laws! Nor does the First Amendment protect your pseudo journalism of disrupting a prayer service,” she wrote.
She concluded with a warning, "You are on notice."
Dhillon alleges Lemon was part of the mob of anti-ICE protesters as he livestreamed the attack on the Cities Church whose pastor allegedly heads the local ICE office.
"The Klan Act is one of the most important federal civil rights statutes. It's a law that makes it illegal to terrorize and violate the civil rights of citizens. Whenever people conspire this, the Klan Act can be used," she said on Monday's The Benny Johnson Show.
"Everyone in the protest community needs to know that the fullest force of the federal government is going to come down and prevent this from happening and put people away for a long time."