Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested in Los Angeles on Thursday for allegedly violating the law for his role in an anti-ICE protest at a
Minnesota church earlier this month, his attorneys say.

A statement from Lemon?s attorney, Abbe Lowell, said he was arrested by federal authorities on Thursday night while covering the Grammy Awards
in Los Angeles.

?Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally
protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always
done,? Lowell?s statement read. ?The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those
in power accountable. There is no more important time for people like
Don to be doing this work.?

Lemon joined a group of leftist rioters for a January 18 protest
organized and promoted by the Racial Justice Network and Black Lives
Matter Minnesota. The mob targeted Cities Church in St. Paul because
one of its pastors allegedly worked with ICE. Rioters have descended on
the Twin Cities since the January killing of Renee Good by an ICE
agent.

The group?s leader, Nekima Levy-Armstrong, told Lemon that the protest
was a ?clandestine operation? to ?disrupt business as usual.?

?Instead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peaceful
Minnesota protesters, the Trump Justice Department is devoting its
time, attention and resources to this arrest, and that is the real
indictment of wrongdoing in this case,? Lowell, best known for
defending Hunter Biden, wrote in his statement. ?This unprecedented
attack on the First Amendment and transparent attempt to distract
attention from the many crises facing this administration will not
stand.?

President Donald Trump said that the ?troublemakers? behind the protest ?should be thrown in jail,? and his administration roundly rejected
Lemon?s claim that his activities were protected under the First
Amendment. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon
said that Lemon was ?not out of legal jeopardy? and vowed that the
Justice Department would ?pursue? Lemon to the ends of the Earth.?

A federal appeals court earlier this month found probable cause to
charge Lemon. The Justice Department will likely seek to charge Lemon
under the FACE Act, a law that prohibits the disruption of worship
services, which the Biden administration infamously used to prosecute
peaceful anti-abortion protesters.

Lemon claims the Trump administration is going to prosecute him as
punishment, suggesting that the Justice Department would even violate
the law to see him locked up.

?If there?s no law to fit, they will try to fit or retrofit something
or go around a judge and just do it themselves,? Lemon told fellow
former CNN personality Alisyn Camerota earlier this month. ?If one
doesn?t work, then they try something else and that fails, and they try something else and then they just don?t give up.?

Three of the anti-ICE agitators who organized the church storming,
including Armstrong, have been arrested by the FBI. William Kelly, a
prominent professional protester who has demonstrated outside the
church of War Secretary Pete Hegseth in Washington, D.C., was among
those who entered the sanctuary during the Sunday morning service.

The Justice Department is expected to hold a press conference on
Lemon?s arrest later Friday.

[I wonder how much that sausage sucker paid 4imprint for his reporter
cosplay gear?]

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Democrats and the liberal media hate President Trump more than they
love this country.


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