"However, he and several other prosecutors in the office recently quit after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) told them to drop their investigation into the legality of an ICE agent's killing of Renee Good, a queer mother of three. Instead, the DOJ tasked the office with investigating Good's widow for any possible links to other anti-ICE protest groups (which the administration has referred to as a "sinister left-wing movement")."
"Federal agents with the DOJ arrested Lemon the night of January 29. He was one of nine defendants charged by the DOJ for their association with the protest. The DOJ charged them with allegedly violating the 1870 Conspiracy Against Rights law, which prohibits intimidating or preventing people from exercising constitutional rights (in this case, the right to worship), and the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act of 1994, which prohibits protestors from blocking church entrances."
Don Lemon has hired former federal prosecutor Joseph H. Thompson to defend him against federal charges related to his in-person coverage of a January 18 protest that interrupted a Sunday service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Thompson recently resigned from the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota after the Department of Justice instructed prosecutors to drop an investigation into the legality of an ICE agent's killing of Renee Good and instead investigate Good's widow for links to other anti-ICE protest groups. Thompson formed a law firm with Harry Jacobs. Federal agents arrested Lemon on January 29; he is one of nine defendants charged under the 1870 Conspiracy Against Rights law and the FACE Act.
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