US writer Don Lemon arrives for the Time 100 Gala, celebrating the 100 astir influential radical successful the world, astatine Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall successful New York City connected April 26, 2023.
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Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested by national agents successful transportation with his journalistic activities covering protests successful Minnesota, his lawyer said Friday.
Lemon "was taken into custody by national agents past nighttime successful Los Angeles, wherever helium was covering the Grammy awards," his attorney, Abbe Lowell, successful a statement.
"Don has been a writer for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected enactment successful Minneapolis was nary antithetic than what helium has ever done," Lowell said.
Department of Justice officials had publically vowed to bring charges against Lemon implicit his beingness astatine a Jan. 18 protestation astatine a religion successful St. Paul, Minnesota.
Lemon, an autarkic newsman who hosts The Don Lemon Show connected YouTube, has said helium was reporting connected the protest. A national magistrate justice past week reportedly rejected a transgression ailment that was brought against him.
In Friday's statement, Lowell called Lemon's apprehension an "unprecedented onslaught connected the First Amendment" and a "transparent effort to distract attraction from the galore crises facing this administration."
"Don volition combat these charges vigorously and thoroughly successful court," Lowell said.
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