Don Lemon got arrested by the federal government for storming a Minnesota Church, and is now facing multiple charges related to the incident. Further, he is making the media circuit to whine about his arrest, as happened when he appeared on Monday, February 2, with ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, during which he commented on the situation and whined about it.
As background, in the original incident, which occurred on Sunday, January 18, a collection of leftist agitators, including fired former CNN hack Don Lemon, Cities Church to harass ICE and the pastor, who was falsely accused of working with ICE. What the mob did was a major felony, and now calls are growing for them to face the repercussions.
Apparently, Don Lemon, formerly employed at CNN and now an independent podcaster, was riled up alongside the other members of mob in the far-left city by claims from leftist sources online that the church and pastor had been working with ICE to detain and deport illegals. The church is an evangelical one, and leftist social media personalities claimed that the church’s pastor, David Easterwood, is the Field Office Director of ICE in the area. In response to those claims, Lemon and others stormed the church.
Lemon was then arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) agents on the night of Thursday, January 29, shortly after a grand jury had been empaneled on the same day to consider charges against him. His arrest occurred in LA, where he was to cover the Grammys.
Describing the arrest itself, Lemon snapped, “I press the elevator button and then, all of a sudden, I feel myself being jostled and people trying to grab me and put me in handcuffs. And I said, ‘What are you doing here?’ They said, ‘We came to arrest you.’ I said, ‘Who are you?’ And then they, like, finally identity themselves.”
Continuing, Lemon described asking them for a warrant and having to wait as the agent with it was found and brought to him, then he kept whining about the supposed waste of resources that arresting him for a serious crime was, saying, “It had to be maybe a dozen people, which is a waste, Jimmy, of resources. Because I had told them weeks before, maybe once or twice… that I could just go in, and they didn’t have to be — the folks that were just working there that day, and they didn’t have to have all of these people following me around.”
Chiming in, Kimmel added, “It’s more than just a waste of resources.” Agreeing, Lemon told him, losing it over the supposed purpose of the arrest, “You’re right about more than just a waste of resources. They want that. They want to embarrass you. They want to intimidate you. They want to instill fear, and so that’s why they did it that way.”
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Lemon also lost it when speaking outside the courthouse after his arrest and release. He said, “I’ve spent my entire career covering the news. I will not stop now.” He continued, “There is no more important time than right now, this very moment, for a free and independent media that shines a light on the truth and holds those accountable. And I will not stop now. I will not stop ever.
He added, “Last night, the DOJ sent a team of federal agents to arrest me in the middle of the night for something that I’ve been doing for the last 30 years. And that is covering the news. The First Amendment of the Constitution protects that work for me and for countless other journalists who do what I do. I stand with all of them, and I will not be silenced. I look forward to my day in court.”
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