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8:17 AM PT — Don Lemon is being charged with conspiracy to deprive rights, and violation of the FACE Act — interfering by drive of somebody’s First Amendment rights — in response to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson.
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Don Lemon was arrested Thursday evening by federal brokers in Los Angeles in connection together with his protection of an ICE protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service.
Lemon was charged with violating a federal legislation by impeding individuals’s proper to worship throughout an anti-ICE protest at Cities Church in Minneapolis on January 18, in response to The New York Times.
In an announcement Friday, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says … “At my direction, early this morning federal agents arrested Don Lemon, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy, in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.”
AG Pam Bondi Issues Stern Warning To Protestors Interrupting Worship Services
The AG later launched a video during which she mentioned the Trump administration plans to go after anybody who will get within the away of different individuals worshipping.
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Don’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, issued an announcement condemning the arrest and calling it a distraction by the Trump administration from investigating the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by the hands of federal immigration enforcement brokers in Minneapolis.
Lowell says Lemon was merely exercising his First Amendment right as a reporter to doc the church demonstration, shining a light-weight on the reality and holding these in energy accountable.
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Lemon was in Los Angeles to cowl the Grammys this weekend … and he was on the 2026 Recording Academy Honors Thursday night — the identical evening he was picked up by feds.
We instructed you all about it — the federal authorities sought to charge 8 individuals following the demonstration at Cities Church, together with Lemon … however a Justice of the Peace decide solely authorized costs towards solely 3 individuals — not together with Lemon. A federal appeals court docket additionally denied a petition by the Justice Department to subject the extra warrants.
Journalist Georgia Fort Arrested After Documenting Minneapolis Church Protest
Despite the Justice of the Peace’s ruling, it seems the DOJ went to a grand jury to get an indictment towards Don … as a result of that is what it did to arrest Georgia Fort, a Minnesota impartial journalist who was additionally arrested for her protection of the church protest.
Federal Agents Outside Georgia Fort’s Home
Georgia recorded herself when federal brokers confirmed up at her house to arrest her Friday morning … and pictures of the brokers at her entrance door was shared as properly.
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The demonstration concerned about 30 to 40 individuals and was meant to confront the Cities Church pastor David Easterwood, a Minneapolis ICE official. He was not current on the church when the protest erupted.
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