Temple U. Student Who ‘Assisted Don Lemon’ Charged in Church Storming Case
“As a consequence of this support, I am now being targeted by the Trump administration.”
Every single person involved in this incident should face prosecution.
FOX News reports:
Temple University student who ‘assisted Don Lemon’ charged in federal church-storming case
A student at Philadelphia’s Temple University has surrendered on federal charges tied to a Minnesota anti-ICE protest at a St. Paul church that also involved journalist Don Lemon and others.
The Temple News reported that Jerome Richardson, a senior majoring in political science set to graduate in May, “helped Lemon with ‘logistics and local contacts’ and appeared in a video before his arrest saying he supported the protest as a matter of conscience and faith.”
Richardson surrendered to federal authorities in Philadelphia and made an appearance in court before getting released later Monday, and is awaiting trial, according to a campaign to raise funds for him on GoFundMe.
“If you riot in a place of worship, we WILL find you,” Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a Monday X post.
“We have made two more arrests in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota: Ian Davis Austin and Jerome Deangelo Richardson,” she added.
Lemon, a former CNN anchor, was arrested last week for his alleged involvement in the anti-ICE protest at Cities Church. After his Los Angeles court appearance, he was released from custody without bail, with his next court appearance scheduled for Feb. 9 in Minneapolis.
Lemon has said he was practicing journalism by covering the disturbance and is protected by the First Amendment, while his detractors say he crossed the line with his actions and can’t use his reporter status as a shield.
In a recent post on Instagram, Richardson identified himself as someone who “assisted Don Lemon” with “logistics and connecting him with local contacts to report on ICE-led Minnesota Operation Surge. As a consequence of this support, I am now being targeted by the Trump administration. I am speaking out now because I anticipate being in federal custody sometime in the near future.”
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Whelp, he’s going to have a tough time in life with a felony conviction.
Put the fries in the bag, Jerome.
“Temple University student who ‘assisted Don Lemon’ charged in federal church-storming case”
You mean “Coconspirator of Don Lemon who participated in riot targeting Christians charged by federal government,” right?
I’m not quite understanding how website gofundme can not be legally put out of business for aiding and abetting murderers, insurrectionists, and other societal scum.
But then, I don’t understand why Comey, Barry & Mike Soetoro, the Clintons, Schiffhead, Jill & Cokehead Biden, Beagle/virus man Fauci, “Stinky” Soros & Sons, et al, aren’t all behind prison bars
It isn’t doing that. You have a very weird idea of what “aiding and abetting” means.
Gofundme used to have a rule against criminal defense funds, until we all kicked up a fuss when we wanted to raise money for Rittenhouse’s defense. A lot of us decided that with that and the shenanigans it pulled in Canada, we would never use the site again, and switched to GiveSendGo. So it changed its policy and now you’re complaining again?!
As for the rest, as far as I’m aware there has never been any evidence that either of the 0bamas, or any of the Soroses, have ever committed a crime. At least not unless you go all the way back to smoking choom in high school. The same goes for Schiff, unless this mortgage business ends up going somewhere.
My understanding is that GoFundMe had absolutely NO policies against criminal defense funds until Rittenhouse needed one, which is why we stirred up that raft of crap. In any case, they carefully crafted their policy to forbid defense funds for “violent” crimes, which a church invasion probably doesn’t qualify as.
OK, we both misremembered. The policy against allowing fundraising for people charged with violent crimes goes back long before Rittenhouse. Funds are allowed before charges are brought, and are allowed again after an acquittal, but not in between.
My recollection was that they changed the policy after our protests about Rittenhouse, but they didn’t. They allowed him to open a new fund after his acquittal, because he was no longer charged.
So it depends what this guy is actually charged with. If the charges are violent crimes, then someone should inform GoFundMe and demand that they shut down his fund. But we don’t know that the charges are for violent crimes. I haven’t seen a list of the specific charges.
Don’t worry, kid. You’re the “designated rollover guy.”
Give them who they really want and you’ll end up with a suspended sentence for aggravated mopery, and a prohibition on wearing masks for four years,
“a senior majoring in political science”
Also, thank Pam for handing you a “lived experience” thesis topic.
he supported the protest as a matter of conscience and faith.”
BS. He did it out of brainwashing, stupidity, and the excrement spewed by his communist professors at Phily’s Temple U, and the trashstream media: NYT, Huffingturd Post, WaPo, CBS NBC ABC PBS MSDNC and CNN.
He and his idiot friends think they’re all heros for fighting law enforcement and by supporting invasion and other crimes.
“I am being targeted by the Trump administration…”. No, you are being *PROSECUTED* by the federal government for violating the FACE Act, and probably several other laws, Jerome. Political Science major? Wow, you won’t even be able to make coffee with that useless waste of time….
Are you kidding? There are hundreds of Democrat pols for whom the competence issue isn’t even on the radar who would love to intern him.