Journalist Don Lemon arrested after protest that disrupted Minnesota church service

WASHINGTON -- Journalist Don Lemon has been arrested aft helium entered a Minnesota religion and recorded anti-immigration enforcement protesters who disrupted a work successful an incidental that accrued tensions betwixt residents and the Trump administration, his lawyer said Friday.

Lemon was taken into custody by national agents successful Los Angeles, wherever helium had been covering the Grammy Awards, his lawyer Abbe Lowell said.

It is unclear what complaint oregon charges Lemon is facing successful the Jan. 18 protest. The apprehension came aft a magistrate justice past week rejected prosecutors' archetypal bid to complaint the journalist.

Lemon, who was fired from CNN successful 2023, has said helium has nary affiliation to the enactment that went into the religion and that helium was determination arsenic a writer chronicling protesters.

"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 successful a statement. "The First Amendment exists to support journalists whose relation it is to radiance airy connected the information and clasp those successful powerfulness accountable."

Lowell added that "Don volition combat these charges vigorously and thoroughly successful court."

A salient civilian rights lawyer and 2 different radical progressive successful the protestation were arrested past week. Prosecutors person accused them of civilian rights violations for disrupting a work astatine the Cities Church successful St. Paul, wherever a section authoritative with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement serves arsenic a pastor.