Don Lemon was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, attorney says
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Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles Thursday night while covering the Grammy Awards.
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles Thursday night while covering the Grammy Awards, his attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement.
Lemon told Scripps News last week he believed the Department of Justice would charge him in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church. Lemon has asserted that he was covering the protest as an independent journalist when a group of demonstrators confronted a pastor whom they accused of being an immigration enforcement agent.
Lemon's interview with Scripps News aired one day before Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse, was killed in Minnesota by immigration enforcement agents. Pretti was among those protesting and documenting immigration enforcement activities as tensions have remained high in the Twin Cities area.
"I think it's not over because it doesn't matter if there's no law to fit," Lemon told Scripps News' Alisyn Camerota last week. "They will try to fit or retrofit something or go around a judge and just do it themselves."
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