DOJ Arrests 2 More People Who Allegedly Stormed Minnesota Church

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday two more individuals have been arrested in connection to the disruption of a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced in an X post that the DOJ had arrested Ian Davis Austin and Jerome Deangelo Richardson for allegedly being connected to “the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.” She added that “if you riot in a place of worship, we WILL find you.”

The DOJ did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

Bondi’s announcement comes after federal agents arrested former CNN host Don Lemon in Los Angeles on Thursday night on charges reportedly related to the Jan. 18 Cities Church disruption, which demonstrators organized to protest the pastor for being an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official. Federal authorities on Friday charged Lemon with federal civil rights crimes in connection with the disruption of the Cities Church service.

Lemon, who walked free with no bail on Friday, claimed Saturday in a Substack post that the U.S. government had “decided” that his “work as a journalist was not protected speech, but punishable.”

Nine people in total have been arrested thus far following the incident at Cities Church, ABC News reported on Monday.

“Just watched footage of the Church Raid in Minnesota by the agitators and insurrectionists,” President Donald Trump wrote in a Jan. 20 Truth Social post. “These people are professionals! No person acts the way they act. They are highly trained to scream, rant, and rave, like lunatics, in a certain manner, just like they are doing.”

Additionally, Bondi announced in a Wednesday post to X that 16 rioters had been arrested in Minnesota for allegedly “assaulting” federal law enforcement agents.

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