Don Lemon’s Minnesota protest charges: Letters to the Editor — Feb. 3, 2026

The Issue: Don Lemon’s arrest for his involvement in the anti-ICE protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn.

Democrats wanted to prohibit peaceful protests by pro-lifers at abortion clinics, so they crafted the FACE act, which was expanded to include houses of worship (“Lemon gets pinched,” Jan. 31).

Now, the Department of Justice is charging Don Lemon with violating the FACE act for terrorizing worshipers inside a Minnesota church, and Democrats say this violates the First Amendment.

Wrong: Lemon and the other morons who laid siege to that church are guilty of violating a law that Democrats championed.

Walter Goldeski

East Brunswick, NJ

How is it that the DOJ arrests Lemon for reporting the news inside a Minneapolis church while refusing to investigate the tragic shooting of Renee Good?

Laws are in place to protect the rights of all people across the political spectrum. Good’s death and the violation of worshipers inside a house of God are equally deserving of transparent, thorough investigations.

Denise Saupé

Minneapolis, Minn.

Churches aren’t public forums where everyone has a right to be heard. They’re private institutions, whose congregants, under the same amendment, have the right to freely practice their chosen religion.

Lemon had no right to trespass upon them. For that, he should forfeit his own freedom. He can always retain his right to proselytize us from behind bars.

James Evans

Worcester, Mass.

On one hand, I was hoping the DOJ wouldn’t give Lemon the attention he needs to keep his career alive. On the other hand, if he isn’t punished for this transgression, he’ll just try a more stupid stunt in the future.

John Dumary Jr.

Duanesburg

A disruptive, but entirely peaceful protest is so deeply disturbing to this administration, but Jan. 6, an event in which dozens of officers were beaten, crushed and sprayed with poison is now seen by President Trump as having been perpetrated not by felonious thugs, but by great patriots.

Any charges against Don Lemon will surely not be upheld, but the administration’s message is as clear as it is chilling: It will harass and persecute journalists whom it dislikes.

Oren Spiegler

Peters Township, Pa.

The people supporting Lemon are most likely the same people who want demonstrators arrested for praying outside abortion clinics.

William Carroll

Woodside

It’s likely nothing much will come out of Lemon’s arrest. But it’s more about taking the wind out of his sails.

Ronald Frank

West Orange, NJ

The Issue: Judge Garnett’s decision to take the death penalty off the table in the Luigi Mangione case.

Brian Thompson got the death penalty while his assassin, Luigi Mangione, will most likely be free in 20 years or less, regardless of his sentence (“ ‘Execution’ nix,” Jan. 31).

Our judicial system needs an overhaul. A lack of justice permeates our so-called “justice system.”

The Post reported Mangione didn’t appear to have a reaction to the ruling. He was probably trying to decipher the word salad coming from Judge Margaret Garnett’s mouth.

Don Whitman

Cross River

It’s said that a picture is worth a thousand words, and many people are still haunted by the image of alleged shooter Mangione aiming a gun at Thompson. However, that was not enough evidence for Garnett to keep the death penalty on the table.

It appeared as though she had even questioned her decision, by stating that her ruling “may strike the average person — and indeed many lawyers and judges — as tortured and strange.”

Michael Headley

Brooklyn

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