"Less than a day after her office obtained an indictment against eight people, most Black, for invading a Christian Nationalist Church whose pastor reportedly has a leadership position in ICE, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon RTed a tweet from far right extremist Mike Davis calling Don Lemon a klansman. That was the culmination of almost two weeks of an intense, wildly inappropriate media campaign led by Harmeet."
"Among the things Harmeet did in her blitz was: Attacked both Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko and Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz Falsely claimed that the entire Eighth Circuit panel had found probable cause for the indictment Disseminated false claims about what happened at the protest Disseminated the White House generated AI slop that darkened Nekima Levy Armstrong's skin and falsely depicting her crying"
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon RTed a far-right extremist's tweet calling Don Lemon a klansman. Dhillon led an intense media campaign targeting a Christian Nationalist Church protest and Don Lemon personally. The media blitz coincided with her office indicting eight mostly Black defendants after two judicial rulings found there was not probable cause to charge most defendants. The indictment proceeded without inclusion of any local career prosecutor. Dhillon publicly attacked judges, promoted false accounts of the protest, amplified altered AI imagery darkening Nekima Levy Armstrong's skin, used inflammatory religious language, and platformed calls labeling defendants with extreme terms. The timing and tone of the messaging raised concerns about politicization and improper media influence on prosecutorial actions.
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