{"id":2500403,"date":"2025-10-18T11:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-appears-to-encourage-terrorism-urges-black-people-to-buy-guns-for-use-against-ice\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T11:49:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:49:54","slug":"don-lemon-appears-to-encourage-terrorism-urges-black-people-to-buy-guns-for-use-against-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-appears-to-encourage-terrorism-urges-black-people-to-buy-guns-for-use-against-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Lemon Appears to Encourage Terrorism, Urges &#8216;Black People&#8217; to Buy Guns for Use Against ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdon-lemon-appears-to-encourage-terrorism-urges-black-people-to-buy-guns-for-use-against-ice%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2500403&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former CNN host Don Lemon advocated for Black and other racial minority communities to exercise their Second Amendment rights by legally obtaining firearms to defend themselves against raids by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). During a podcast appearance, Lemon referenced recent violent incidents involving ICE agents, noting multiple attacks and riots at ICE facilities in cities like Chicago and Portland. He suggested that people should prepare for encounters with ICE by legally carrying guns, arguing that the Second amendment was designed to protect citizens from unlawful government actions. The article also highlights a critically important rise in assaults against ICE personnel and mentions several violent attacks on ICE and border Patrol facilities, including shootings and attempts on agents&#8217; lives.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Former CNN host Don Lemon said that blacks and other racial minorities should exercise their Second Amendment rights to fight United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a Thursday appearance on &ldquo;The Left Hook&rdquo; podcast.<\/p>\n<p>ICE facilities in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, have been the scene of multiple riots as opposition to the agency&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >operations targeting illegal immigrants<\/a> has intensified. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-nyc-woman-refuses-take-bait-don-lemon-tries-get-condemn-charlie-kirk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lemon<\/a> told <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3rLG_Vw0SZM\">podcast<\/a> host and &ldquo;Daily Beast&rdquo; columnist Wajahat Ali that &ldquo;black people&rdquo; and &ldquo;brown people&rdquo; should be ready for when the agency comes knocking on the door.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Black people, brown people of all stripes, whether you&rsquo;re an Indian-American or a Mexican-American or whoever you are, go out in your place where you live and get a gun. Legally,&rdquo; Lemon said.<\/p>\n<p>A person fired at ICE agents with a pistol when ICE raided a California marijuana farm in July after obtaining a warrant, with the FBI offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the suspect&rsquo;s identification, arrest, and conviction.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Get a license to carry legally,&rdquo; Lemon said. &ldquo;Because when you have people knocking on your door and taking you away without due process as a citizen, isn&rsquo;t that what the Second Amendment was written for?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  <script> console.log(\"A\/B Test Video Player\"); \/\/ Helper function to set a cookie function setVideoCookie(name, value, days) {     var expires=\"\";     if (days) {         var date=new Date();         date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days*24*60*60*1000));         expires=\"; expires=\" + date.toUTCString();     }     document.cookie=name + \"=\" + (value || \"\")  + expires + \"; path=\/\"; }  \/\/ Helper function to get a cookie function getVideoCookie(name) {     var nameEQ=name + \"=\"; 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I don&rsquo;t believe they&rsquo;re doing it without due process. They&rsquo;re asking people for papers. They&rsquo;re not really beating people up. These people are doing things that are illegal,&rsquo;&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-don-lemons-interview-goes-wrong-dominican-woman-gives-wrong-answer-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lemon<\/a> continued. &ldquo;Nobody is illegal. It is a misdemeanor to cross the border.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>ICE agents have experienced a 1000 percent increase in assaults year-over-year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2025\/08\/07\/ice-arrests-more-pedophiles-drug-traffickers-and-violent-criminals-law-enforcement\">according<\/a> to an August Department of Homeland Security release. During ICE operations in Chicago, agents were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2025\/10\/02\/two-vehicles-used-weapons-against-ice-officers-operation-midway-blitz-separate\">attacked<\/a> by multiple assailants who used cars to ram vehicles used by the agency, with Chicago police allegedly standing down rather than assisting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dhs-celebrates-2-million-illegals-leaving-country-since-january-numbers-dont-lie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICE<\/a> agents being assaulted during one Oct. 4 incident.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to those incidents, the Department of Homeland Security said in a Sept. 26 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DHSgov\/status\/1971628803555311671\">post<\/a>&nbsp;on X that there had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/political-violence-on-the-rise-in-the-us-a-timeline-of-key-incidents\/\" title=\"Political violence on the rise in the US: A timeline of key incidents\">multiple violent attacks<\/a> on an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois. Other ICE facilities across the country have been attacked as well, notably in Portland, where violent protesters reportedly attacked conservative journalists covering the riots and planned to aim lasers at aircraft used by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/evidence-mounts-that-capitol-breach-was-pre-planned-eroding-incitement-allegation-in-trump-impeachment-trial\/\" title=\"Evidence Mounts that Capitol Breach Was Pre-Planned, Eroding Incitement Allegation in Trump Impeachment Trial\">federal law enforcement agencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were killed during a&nbsp;shooting&nbsp;at an ICE office in Dallas on Sept. 24, with the gunman taking his own life. 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