"Don Lemon has said his recent arrest was designed to "embarrass" and "intimidate" him."
""I got back to the hotel. I walked in, I had my swag bag from the thing, and I was walking up to the room and I pressed the elevator button and all of a sudden, I feel myself being jostled and people trying to grab me and put me in handcuffs," Lemon recalled. "And I said, 'What are you doing here?' And they said, 'We came to arrest you.' I said, 'Well, who are you?' Finally, they identified themselves. I said, 'If you are who you are then where's the warrant?'""
Don Lemon was arrested on charges that he violated federal law by entering Cities Church in St Paul on 18 January. He had been covering a protest responding to an immigration crackdown after two local residents were killed by federal agents. Protestors interrupted a church service and chanted "ICE out" at a church where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official serves as pastor. President Trump and others called for Lemon's arrest, citing a law that protects participation in a house of worship. Lemon's attorney offered to have him surrender to authorities but received no response; a grand jury later returned an indictment. Lemon says he was taken into custody at his hotel without an immediate warrant.
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