Lemon the former CNN talking head and reporter has had a judge and Appeals Court deny Trump & Co. efforts to arrest him for reporting on ICE protest in a St. Paul , Minn. church…
This extra ordinary effort to show the Trump admin’s ire at a media persona IS gonna cost Trump & Co. in the end…
It WILL be looked as a attack on First Amendment rights…..
This is NOT Trump & Co. needs right now…
But you CAN count on them running things into a ditch….
*Update….
Former CNN host Don Lemon, released a day after federal officers arrested him in Los Angeles, defended his career in journalism on Friday, saying he will never stop reporting.
U.S. District Judge Patricia Donahue ordered Lemon to be released on no money bond, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Lemon was accused of disturbing worshippers in a Minnesota church by disrupting their First Amendment right to practice their faith.
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The former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested late Thursday night on charges that he violated federal law during a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minn., his lawyer said, in a case rejected last week by a magistrate judge.
Mr. Lemon has said he was simply reporting as a journalist when he entered the Cities Church on Jan. 18 to observe a demonstration against the immigration crackdown in the area.
The protesters interrupted a service at the church, where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official serves as a pastor, and chanted “ICE out.” Afterward, the Trump administration sought to charge eight people over the episode, including Mr. Lemon, citing a law that protects people seeking to participate in a service in a house of worship.
But the magistrate judge who reviewed the evidence approved charges against only three of the people, rejecting the evidence against Mr. Lemon and the others as insufficient. The Justice Department then petitioned a federal appeals court to force the judge to issue the additional warrants, only to be denied….
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For their part, demonstrators who have turned out in force in Minneapolis have asserted that their rights are being violated as they try to speak out against the crackdown.
On Friday morning, a prominent independent reporter in the Twin Cities, Georgia Fort, who had also filmed the protest at the church, said in a live-streamed video on Facebook that she was being arrested by federal agents…
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The arrest of Mr. Lemon come against the backdrop of turmoil inside the U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis. At a tense meeting earlier this week, a number of prosecutors challenged the head of the office about the administration’s decision not to pursue investigations of the shootings by federal agents, according to people familiar with the internal discussions. At least a half dozen prosecutors have resigned, and more departures are expected….
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