Anti-ICE Church Invaders Chanted Fabricated BLM “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” Slogan
“Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” from the Michael Brown case was the lie that gave birth to the BLM movement, and now has been adopted by the anti-ICE movement.
The mob that took over a church in Minneapolis in an anti-ICE protest – which may lead to criminal charges – reportedly was led by local Black Lives Matter groups including Nekima Levy Armstrong:
Given the BLM involvement, it was not surprising to hear a familiar chant:
“Hands Up, Don’t Shoot”
I didn’t really want to watch this video but finally viewed it all just now. We really need to require our liberal friends and relatives to view it. It’s so terrible.
— SteveAustinWI (@SteveAustinWI) January 19, 2026
That chant is the fabricated and false narrative from the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. It’s a fabricated narrative I’ve been documenting for over a decade:
- Two years ago Michael Brown died, and a movement based on lies was born (2016)
- Five years ago Michael Brown died, and a movement based on lies was born (2019)
- Reminder: “Hands up, don’t shoot” is a fabricated narrative from the Michael Brown case (2020)
- St. Louis Prosecutor Re-opened Michael Brown Case, Will Not Bring Charges (2020)
- Reminder (Again): “Hands up, don’t shoot” is a fabricated narrative from the Michael Brown case (2024)
- Ten years ago Michael Brown died, and Black Lives Matter based on the “hands up, don’t shoot” lie was born (2024)
Short version – After a thorough investigation by local prosecutors and the Obama-Holder Department of Justice, it was determined that there was no credible evidence that Michael Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson with his hands up or saying don’t shoot. Rather, Brown sucker punched Wilson, who was seated in a patrol car, and tried to take his service pistol, and was shot the first time. He then was shot a second time when he made another charge at Wilson.
The shooting resulted in rioting and looting in Ferguson, and gave rise to the organized Black Lives Matter. That slogan, which was a total fraud, was the original organizing tool for BLM and remains its organizing tool to this day, as witnessed by the chants by the invaders who took over the Minneapolis church.
“Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” was the lie that gave birth to the BLM movement, and now has been adopted by the anti-ICE movement.
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Every time I think people like this can’t anything worse than what they’ve already done, they always do.
Prayer to Saint Michael
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
With their hands up I think they are a better target if you shoot,
which is why I carry every where.
in our church there are 8 ppl that I KNOW carry … it will be interesting
if some shitshow starts …
Gag.
How do we fight this, label them as klansmen?
TBH these idiots went a long way to burning up their PR narrative with this stunt. I can’t think of any instances in the modern era where the ‘good guys’ are invading a house of worship to purposefully disrupt religious services for political reasons. The DoJ is threatening to use Klan statutes and reportedly to arrest Lemon.
“The DoJ is threatening to use Klan statutes and reportedly to arrest Lemon.”
How ironic.
It’s not ironic at all. That’s what the statute is for.
Its very ironic. In case you missed it: Don Lemon is black.
Yes, I know that. I don’t see the relevance. He’s exactly the kind of person the statute was intended for. The legislators enacting the statute did not have any particular color in mind. That would have made it unconstitutional. They legislated about behavior, not who is engaging in it. In particular they had in mind the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party, and that’s who’s involved here too.
Among other thoughts in this comments section, it’s ironic because for generations now members of certain victim classes the law was intended to protect got a pass when they were offenders. For years, the law was almost always enforced against the right while the left skated through its own transgressions. (Hence the left’s culture of unaccountability.)
Here, there’s at least an inkling of that changing.
I don’t think that’s true, but even if it has sometimes worked out that way it certainly wasn’t the legislature’s intention, nor the public understanding at the time. The legislation was intended and understood to apply to anyone who behaves in a certain way, so I see nothing ironic in it being used in exactly that way. It has never mattered what the perpetrators looked like, so there’s nothing ironic about how they look in this case.
The whole idea that this is ironic is like that awful term “reverse discrimination”, which inherently implies that there is expected to be only one kind, flowing in one direction, and there’s something remarkable when it happens to flow in a different direction. That’s racist thinking right there.
I don’t know what brand of rose colored glasses you’ve been wearing, but the public record is replete with, for example, hate crime enhancements not sought by prosecutors when the evidence fit the crime and the identities of the perpetrators (read: identity politics) were inconvenient. It’s not racist to notice this.
Please don’t ask me to cite specific cases. If someone as well-read as you hasn’t noticed, you simply don’t want to.
No, Felix, that is just not true. On the contrary, the record is replete with cases of these laws being enforced regardless of the perpetrator’s race. I don’t believe you can cite evidence of what you claim to be true.
You’re one of those people who can never be wrong, aren’t you.
Pittsburgh McDonald’s stabbing (March 2021)
Detroit mob attack (April 2014)
San Francisco elderly assault (January 2021)
Macy’s store assault (June 2020)
Cincinnati mob attacks (July 2015)
In every one of these cases, evidence of racial bias was irrefutable and had the victims been minorities, especially had they been black, hate crime enhancement charges would have been sought.
No amount of “look at me, I’m not a racist” virtue signaling on your part will change that.
They just published all their damn names.
I suspect even Republicans will be intellectually taxed to find a way to botch this.
They’ll find a way. Its what they do best.
Harmeet Dhillon, who runs the DoJ Civil Rights division, is a very serious, very competent person. I am more than willing to give her some slack to build and prosecute a strong case. Potentially, A case that rips the guts out of some lefty NGOs, their affiliates, organizers, financiers and propagandist allies like Lemon.
I have full faith in the stupid parties ability to fubar this ….
It was nice of them to take ownership of the church invasion and list the coconspirators.
That should make things much easier for the FBI.
It’s as if the left WANTS Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act. Maybe that’s why he hasn’t done it yet. 4D chess move? I don’t know.
Perhaps the left is banking on winning, politically, if he did. Whether that’s the case I don’t know either.
They do. They’re pushing for Trump to put the hammer down because they can portray it as dictatorship. It’s the only line they have left.
It’s more of a bank shot than 4D chess. Promote chaos and then claim that without Trump in office, things would be much calmer.
of course you are correct
the msm theatrics will support the lefts agenda and the kids will lap it up
they cause the pain and then blame the surgeon who can fix the problem
I fully expect a Minneapolis church to go up in flames within the next two weeks.
Or a synagogue.
But never a mosque….
I expect Minneapolis to go up in flames within the next few months.
I don’t think they thought through (or cared, before, during, or after) what it would be like to be a parishioner and have a mob storm in yelling “Hands Up!!”
Democrats are Terrorists
Liberalism is a mental disorder
Give it up losers. Renee’s hands were on the wheel and the foot was on the pedal.
They chose a fringe church hoping it would sell.
Fringe?! Cities Church is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, which Wikipedia tells me is the largest Protestant body in the USA, and the second-largest Christian body. That’s hardly fringe!
I think Mr Hunt might have been referring to the SBC church as fringe in Minnesota. The dominant church in Minnesota is the Lutheran Church. The SBC is definitely not a fringe church. The fact is that most Americans north of the Mason-Dixon Line probably consider the SBC a fringe church despite its aggregate size.
Let’s grant that interpretation. What does that tell us about the willingness of those north of the Mason Dixon line to enhance in an ecumenical manner to other denominations which predominate outside their geographic area?
When we start down the road of ‘this large denomination or that large denomination are too different’ much less ‘fringe’ then it is a short hop to declaring them an illegitimate other. Especially when we’re discussing an entire denomination core beliefs v some veering into woke nonsense.
IMO a “hot” civil war in the US became inevitable when Walz activated the Minnesota NG and said he would use them in military action against the Federal government and American citizens. This only happened because #Resistance Federal judges now control state guards thanks to a cowardly US Supreme Court that green-lit this unconstitutional power grab. Walz never would have tried it if the #Resistance Federal judges had not given him what amounts to a private military answerable only to him.
If the FBI tries to arrest the terrorists who invaded the church I would not be surprised to see Walz deploy the Minnesota NG to prevent it. Trump could Federalize the Minnesota NG and order them to stand down but the #Resistance Federal Judges and the Supreme Court have already indicated they would block the move. If the commanders in the Minnesota NG obey Walz then the shooting begins in earnest.
How ironic that the Second American Civil War will begin for the same reason that the First did: an effort by one political party to keep slavery legal.
That is a ridiculous take. The constitution does not give the president any authority to federalize the National Guard. It exists only through a statute, and his authority to take control of it comes only from that statute — and it specifically says he can only do so when he can’t enforce the law with the regular forces.
He argued that “regular forces” in this statute means something different from what it means in every other statute, and the court majority said no, it means the same as it does everywhere else, and in circumstances where you are legally prohibited from using the regular forces it follows that you are also be prohibited from using the Guard. Only when you can legally use the regular forces, and that proves not to be enough, can you federalize the Guard. And the determination that the regular forces are not enough is of course reviewable by the courts, just like any determination of fact required by any statute. If Congress had meant to give the president the unreviewable power to decide what the facts are, it would have said “in the president’s opinion” or something similar.
Bull Connor must be looking on from somewhere and saying to himself ‘Minnesota’? It’s cold there.
What we are seeing is a bolshevik revolution in its early phase. First. it was the ICE facility, now it’s a church, and a retail store (Target), and individuals who “look like” ICE ( i.e., the engineers accosted in a restaurant). These latest assaults have only tangential connections to ICE (an agent used a restroom in Target, for instance). None of these protests are actually about ICE or Ms. Good but everything to do with overturning federal government (the President). The ice in Minnesota is dangerously thin.
What I find disappointing is the lack of action by the church attendees. Two or three burly congregants thrashing the ever lovin’ snot out of some of the invaders might be what was called for. I’m talking body slams. Broken noses or other bones. Etc.
Time for some Onward Christian Soldiier because this IS a war.
I completely respect your opinion, but may I counter that it may have been the working of the Holy Spirit in that congregation. The “peace that passes all understanding” is a marvel to experience.
We know much about what the future holds. I believe that the hand of the Almighty is at work.
A church member, Caleb Phillips, described the noise as “so sudden and so loud and just frightening,” with “a lot of the children just immediately started crying.”
Kevin Ezell referenced a conversation with a church missionary, stating “the kids in the worship service were terrified.”
The Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention called it an “unacceptable trauma,” noting protesters shouted “insults and accusations at youth, children, and families,” forcing the service to end prematurely.
Other coverage highlighted children being “terrified,” families harassed, and the overall scene as traumatizing, with some protesters becoming more agitated as kids cried, one man yelling “privileged pigs” amid the distress.
Don Lemon, yelling loudly at the privileged pigs, said, “I’m a journalist. This is an act of journalism”.
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As if being a “journalist” gave him some special status, and as if “acts of journalism” are more important than acts of carpentry or plumbing, let alone acts of worship.
Journalists are allowed to ask questions of people going in or coming out of the voting booth. They are not allowed inside voting areas, nor allowed to take pictures, because the voting booth is considered sacrosanct and voter privacy must be protected.
A church or synagogue, while conducting worship, is far more sacrosanct and deserving of privacy than a voting booth.
Anyone is allowed to ask questions of people going in or coming out of the voting booth, or anywhere else. Reporter (or “journalists” as they like to call themselves) have no more privileges than anyone else. They are not special. Reporting is a trade (not a profession) that is no more important than any other, such as hairdressing or sanitizing telephones.
In the given instance:
mob initiates confrontation – it arrives at a solemn celebration of faith [“free exercise”], deliberately intruding on the personal space of, imprisoning and precluding escape by each worshiper;
mob chants are intended to command attention and posture as if the seated worshipers individually and collectively are a threat to the intruding mob;
mob has hands raised [they have not been asked to raise hands]; one raises their hands when preparing to attack in various martial arts;
it is unknowable by worshipers whether individual mob members or in toto the mob is there to riot and commit violence against individual or all of the worshipers;
it is unknowable whether the mob is armed with any sort of bearable arm or disabling aerosol gases, or who among the mob is a trained fighter;
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mere harassment is wholly insufficient as a charge …
The mob and every individual therein presented as an imminent threat of serious bodily harm and possible death to each worshiper.
But, Christians are meek, i.e., they are slow to anger, as such they are potentially defenseless (by delay) when confronted by morally vacuous social-demonrat, communists.
All pagans should fear the day when Christians collectively lose their patience.
All members of the mob should be in jail held without bond. Pending charges of federal civil rights violations – a separate count on each charge in respect of each worshiper.
And, I pray that each member of the mob is found guilty of multiple federal felonies, and then via civil actions bankrupt for life.
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waiting for an arrest or perp walk.
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With Blondi Bondi at the helm? You have a long wait.
Yes, but the holdup is no doubt due to Dagwood making a sandwich.
hands up dont shoot
hands down
do shoot
I did a search with Bing of “FACE Act mosque” and got:
The FACE Act does not specifically mention mosques or places of worship in its text. However, it is widely understood that the Act protects individuals and facilities from violence and intimidation, which can include actions taken outside of a mosque during public events. The Act’s enforcement by the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation ensures that individuals seeking reproductive health services or exercising their First Amendment rights at places of worship are protected from such actions.
I expressed displease with the result and got:
The FACE Act (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act) protects individuals at places of worship, including mosques, from violence and intimidation, but its application can be complex and context-dependent.
This is the FACE Act in the US code regarding place of religious worship:
18 U.S. Code § 248(a)(2)
(a) Prohibited Activities.—Whoever—
(2) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship; or
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