Disgraced Journalist Don Lemon Arrested by Federal Agents

ST. PAUL, MN — Liberal journalist Don Lemon was arrested Friday morning by federal agents for his role in a protest that disrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 18.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Lemon’s arrest, along with several others, on X:

“At my direction, early this morning federal agents arrested Don Lemon, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy, in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota,” Bondi posted.

Protesters entered the Cities Church in the middle of a service and began loudly chanting phrases like “Justice for Renee Good” and “ICE out,” while frightened children could be seen crying in pews.

One of the church’s pastors, David Easterwood, works for ICE, which is presumably why that particular church was chosen for the protest.

Lemon livestreamed the protest and defended his presence there as simply covering it as a journalist.

Unfortunately for Lemon, who was fired from CNN in 2023 and has been widely criticized for practicing biased journalism, he also defended the protestors storming the church during his livestream.

“This is the beginning of what’s going to happen here,” Lemon said. “When you violate people’s due process, when you pull people off the street and start dragging them and hurting them and not abiding by the Constitution, when you start doing all that, people get upset and angry. And remember what the Civil Rights movement was about. The Civil Rights movement was about these very kinds of protests. There’s nothing in the Constitution about what time you can protest. You can protest at any time. That’s the whole point of it. It’s to disrupt. It’s to make you uncomfortable. And that’s what they’re doing. And that’s what I believe when I say everyone has to be willing to sacrifice something. You have to make people uncomfortable in these times.”

Despite what Lemon said, people are not allowed to protest at any time. The FACE Act of 1994 makes it a federal crime to use force, threats of force, or physical obstruction to prevent people from obtaining or providing reproductive health services, or to interfere with religious worship.

So the protestors disrupting a church service to protest was, in fact, a crime. Lemon entering the church with them and defending their “right” to be there gives the appearance that he was complicit in the protest, which is why he was arrested.

The protest at Cities Church was part of a chaotic month in Minnesota that has seen two people killed while interfering with ICE arrests of illegal immigrants.

Renee Good was fatally shot after she struck an ICE officer with her vehicle after blocking traffic, while Alex Pretti was killed after confronting ICE officers while carrying a loaded gun.

Public opinion varies on whether the shootings were justified, but Good and Pretti were both breaking the law and actively interfering with arrests, so they were not merely protesting as many media outlets have framed it.

For years, Lemon has been a part of the liberal media, reporting only the side of the story that he favors, helping fan the flames of civil unrest that he then attempts to cover as a journalist.

His arrest Friday served notice that people can’t break the law while being protected because they're masquerading as a reporter.