From Fox News: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is rejecting assertions that the anti-ICE protesters who stormed a church in his state over the weekend broke the federal law the Justice Department has cited as having potentially violated.
Top DOJ officials say they are looking into whether the agitators who disrupted services at St. Paul’s Cities Church on Sunday violated the FACE Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act.
The FACE Act makes it a federal crime, with potentially steep fines and jail time, to use or threaten to use force to “injure, intimidate, or interfere” with a person seeking reproductive health services, or with a person lawfully trying to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship. It also prohibits intentional property damage to a facility providing reproductive health services or a place of religious worship. The Ku Klux Klan Act makes it a federal crime for individuals to deny citizens their civil rights.
Ellison appeared on former CNN host Don Lemon’s YouTube show and said the FACE Act only pertains to reproductive rights.
“And the FACE Act, by the way, is designed to protect the rights of people seeking reproductive rights… so that people for a religious reason cannot just use religion to break into women’s reproductive health centers,” Ellison told Lemon.
“How they are stretching either of these laws to apply to people who protested in a church over the behavior of a religious leader is beyond me,” Ellison added.
Here is and interview between Ellison and Lemon at the site of the shooting of agitator Renee Good.
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