“Daddy, I thought you were going to die.”

That’s what a child told his father after the mob left Cities Church in St. Paul. The family had been surrounded in their car. Prevented from leaving. Terrorized during what was supposed to be Sunday worship.

The details emerging from witness statements are horrifying. This wasn’t protest. This wasn’t civil disobedience.

This was domestic terrorism against families and children.

Hostages in a House of Worship

Approximately fifty parishioners were trapped at the front of the sanctuary.

The church aisles were already narrow. The mob occupied the center, making it “nearly impossible for parishioners to get out and leave.”

They weren’t blocking a road. They weren’t occupying a government building. They were holding Christian families hostage inside their own church.

Parents couldn’t reach their children.

From the victim statement: “Members of their parish attempted to retrieve their children from the childcare area located downstairs, but the agitators were blocking the stairs, and the parents were unable to get to their children.”

Read that again. Parents trying to reach their kids in the nursery. Blocked by a screaming mob. Unable to get to their babies.

What kind of people do this?

Screaming at Children

One agitator — identified as William Kelly — was “threatening, aggressive, and intimidating towards parishioners.”

But it gets worse.

Kelly was “screaming and getting in people’s faces, to include women and young children.” He “continued to scream in the faces of young children while they were crying.”

As the children wept, the adults kept screaming at them.

Kelly confronted children directly, saying: “Do you know your parents are Nazis? They’re going to burn in hell.”

To children. During church. While they cried.

The Physical Assault

One woman broke her arm trying to escape.

According to police records, she was “running” and “slipped” while exiting through the church office door. She broke her arm fleeing a mob that had invaded her place of worship.

Her statement to police: “They were terrorized, our children were weeping, college students and young women were sobbing, it was impactful and it will take time to work through.”

Terrorized. That’s the word a victim used. Not “uncomfortable.” Not “disrupted.”

Terrorized.

The “Reverend” Organizer

Nekima Levy Armstrong allegedly organized this assault on a church.

She told authorities she believed the church could not be a “house of God” while an ICE agent served as pastor. Her justification: “demanding justice for Renee Good.”

Armstrong describes herself as “a reverend, on top of being a lawyer and an activist.”

A reverend. Who organized a mob to scream at children in a church. Who trapped families and prevented parents from reaching their babies. Who told Christians their church was “the house of the devil.”

Some reverend.

The Don Lemon Question

Don Lemon was there. Inside the church. With the mob.

A judge refused to sign off on his arrest warrant. That judge — Douglas L. Micko — is married to a woman who reportedly works in Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office.

The same Keith Ellison who is under DOJ investigation. The same office whose boss has been demonizing ICE for months.

A name appears to be redacted in the documents. We have to wonder who that redacted person is. And we have to wonder why a judge with such an obvious conflict of interest was deciding whether to charge someone involved in this assault.

The Aftermath

Three agitators were arrested and “almost immediately released by judges.”

The families they terrorized received no such swift consideration.

One victim told investigators they’re afraid people will come to their house at night because their face is on the church website.

Another victim’s child is traumatized, believing their father was going to die.

Children across the congregation are scarred by adults screaming in their faces that their parents are Nazis who will burn in hell.

The mob gets released. The victims get nightmares.

What This Actually Was

Let’s be clear about what happened at Cities Church.

A mob invaded a house of worship during services. They held approximately fifty people hostage. They blocked parents from reaching their children in the nursery. They screamed in children’s faces until they cried. They told kids their parents would burn in hell. They surrounded families in their cars. They caused physical injuries. They traumatized an entire congregation.

They did this to Christians. During church. On Sunday morning.

Because they disagreed with the pastor’s employer.

The Accountability Question

Three people were arrested and immediately released.

Don Lemon walks free because a conflicted judge wouldn’t sign a warrant.

Where are the federal charges? Where is the FBI investigation into civil rights violations? Where is the DOJ prosecution for conspiracy to deprive citizens of their constitutional rights?

The same federal government that imprisoned January 6th defendants for walking through the Capitol is silent about a mob that held children hostage in a church.

If you want to understand two-tiered justice, look no further than Cities Church.

The Real Target

This wasn’t about Renee Good. Good tried to run over an ICE agent and was shot in self-defense. Using her name to justify terrorizing children is obscene.

This wasn’t about immigration policy. These families have no control over federal enforcement decisions.

This was about terror. Pure and simple. The mob wanted Christians to be afraid. They wanted families to think twice before going to church. They wanted to send a message: support us or suffer.

That’s not protest. That’s intimidation. That’s what authoritarian movements do when they want to crush dissent.

The Bottom Line

“Daddy, I thought you were going to die.”

A child said that. After church. In America. In 2026.

Because a mob of leftists decided that terrorizing Christian families was “justice.” Because adults thought it was acceptable to scream in children’s faces until they cried. Because Don Lemon and his friends wanted to make a point about ICE.

These are the people Democrats defend. These are the “peaceful protesters” Obama wants us to “draw inspiration” from. These are the activists Hollywood celebrities celebrate.

They held children hostage. They screamed that kids would burn in hell. They broke a woman’s arm. They traumatized families.

And most of them walked free.

This is what the left has become. This is who they are.

Remember it. Remember what they did to those children.

And never let them do it again.