"Lemon was in Los Angeles covering the Grammy Awards when he was taken into custody Thursday evening. His arrest comes after federal prosecutors failed to bring charges against him for his interviews of protestors who staged a demonstration at a Minnesota church. Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, was also arrested Friday morning in connection with her reporting in Minnesota, she confirmed in a Facebook live video as agents demanded her surrender."
"Minnesotans have been protesting DHS and ICE activity for the past several weeks in response to the killings of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old poet and mother of three fatally shot by an ICE officer on January 7, and Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse shot by DHS agents while observing operations on January 24. While anyone in the U.S. has the constitutional right to protest, Lemon wasn't even doing that."
Don Lemon was arrested while covering protests related to DHS and ICE activity in Minnesota. Lemon was in Los Angeles covering the Grammy Awards when authorities took him into custody Thursday evening. Federal prosecutors failed to bring charges against him for his interviews of protestors who staged a demonstration at a Minnesota church. Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, was also arrested in connection with her reporting. Minnesotans have been protesting after the killings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti by ICE and DHS agents. Lemon, 59, worked at CNN for 17 years and won an Edward R. Murrow award.
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