Don Lemon Got Arrested.
Amala Ekpunobi
Amala Ekpunobi
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Former CNN Anchor Don Lemon has been arrested over his involvement with the anti-ICE protest that stormed a Minneapolis church during Sunday service. The left claims this is censorship of journalism, while the charges say he was conspiring to interfere with churchgoers’ civil rights. Let’s talk about it.
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| 0:00.0 | American journalist Don Lemon has been arrested. |
| 0:02.5 | Let's talk about it. |
| 0:03.9 | Yeah, you better. |
| 0:08.2 | Yeah, you better. |
| 0:11.1 | Guys, before we get into today's video, please like and subscribe. |
| 0:13.9 | Today we're going to be talking about American journalist Don Lemon. |
| 0:16.3 | Now, as I said, he was arrested last night here in Los Angeles, where I reside. |
| 0:20.6 | And he was arrested for his involvement in Los Angeles, where I reside. And he was arrested for |
| 0:21.8 | his involvement in a protest that took place at a church in Minnesota. We're going to get straight |
| 0:26.3 | into the article here so that you guys can get in on this. Former CNN anchor, Don Lemon was |
| 0:31.2 | arrested by federal authorities and charged with federal civil rights crimes in connection with a |
| 0:35.2 | protest at a Minnesota church service earlier this month. Now, he's arrested alongside three others, quote, in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church service earlier this month. |
| 0:38.9 | Now, he's arrested alongside three others, quote, in connection with the coordinated attack |
| 0:42.9 | on City's Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. And I'm going to show you some videos of that |
| 0:48.3 | protest taking place, but essentially Don Lemon heard that this protest was taking place, |
| 0:52.3 | which involved disrupting a church service |
| 0:54.6 | as it was happening at City's Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. |
| 0:58.3 | Now he claims he was just there from a journalistic perspective to document what was happening |
| 1:02.2 | that he was not a part of the activism, and we'll go back and forth on that in just a moment. |
| 1:06.5 | But he's charged citing the Face Act, which this article writes, the federal statute prohibits the use of force or intimidation to anyone trying to access reproductive services, but also contains provisions that cover houses of worship, which essentially you just cannot go into these houses of worship and disrupt what they're trying to do, even in the name of protest. |
| 1:29.6 | So he did get involved. |
| 1:31.7 | And I guess they're going to argue back and forth the nature of his involvement, whether he was |
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