Arrests of journalists fuel backlash as anti-ICE protests spread from Minneapolis
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the News Hour. The Justice Department said today it has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting of Alex Preti, the ICU nurse killed by immigration officers in Minneapolis. |
| 0:12.0 | The FBI will conduct that probe. That's a change from the department's stance earlier this week when it only agreed to a more narrow inquiry into the use of force. |
| 0:21.6 | That news followed more arrests in Minnesota over a protest at a church. |
| 0:25.6 | Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro has our report. |
| 0:29.6 | You can't kill us all! |
| 0:31.6 | I so now! |
| 0:33.6 | Another wave of protests swept through Minneapolis today. Strike! |
| 0:37.9 | Strike! |
| 0:38.6 | Strike! |
| 0:39.2 | And echoed in cities across the country. |
| 0:42.2 | We got the power! |
| 0:43.5 | We got the power! |
| 0:44.8 | As tensions grow over federal immigration enforcement and the Trump administration's response to dissent. |
| 0:51.6 | Federal agents today arrested former CNN anchor Don Lemon and three others |
| 0:56.2 | in connection with the January 18th protest at a church in St. Paul where an ICE official |
| 1:01.8 | serves as a pastor. |
| 1:03.2 | LEMON, who was fired from CNN in 2023, now hosts an independent show on YouTube. The Justice Department |
| 1:13.4 | has charged Lemon with federal civil rights crimes. The National Association of Black |
| 1:18.6 | Journalists, along with other news organizations, have condemned the move. |
| 1:22.9 | We're here just chronicling and reporting. We're not part of the activist, but we're here just reporting on them. |
| 1:30.2 | Lemmon's lawyer says he was there strictly in a journalistic role. |
| 1:34.7 | So this is what the First Amendment is about, about the freedom to protest. |
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