"Let me say something to get it out of the way, because it would be very disingenuous for me to sit here and say, Don Lemon and I are friends. Don Lemon and I were great colleagues. We weren't. We're not. I do not like Don Lemon. I don't say that to be petty or gossipy. I say that because it's important,"
"that whether you have a personal grievance with him, you don't like him, you don't like his politics, you don't like his opinions, you don't like his journalism, is irrelevant. Getting a tip from a group that they're going to do something newsworthy, embedding with that group, asking them questions, broadcasting it, and putting context into what is happening is journalism"
Don Lemon was arrested in Los Angeles after covering a Jan. 18 protest at Cities Church in St. Paul. Demonstrators entered the church during a service to protest pastor David Easterwood, reportedly acting director of the ICE field office there. Protests against ICE increased after agents shot and killed two people near Minneapolis amid a broader Minnesota crackdown that included detaining children, asylum-seekers, and restaurant workers. Lemon pleaded not guilty to deprivation of rights and asserted he was covering the demonstration as a journalist. The arrests of reporters covering the protest raised concerns about whether such reporting is protected journalistic activity.
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