Don Lemon Arrested By Trump Regime Basically For Aggravated 'Being Don Lemon'
No one loves the First Amendment more than the administration of Donald Trump. Unless you are critical of the administration in any way. Or a liberal. Or a journalist. Or Black. Or gay. Or work for any outlet besides Fox, Newsmax, Right Side Broadcasting, and possibly now CBS News. Or you ever got hammered on camera on CNN during its annual New Year’s Eve bash. Or your taste in interior decorating doesn’t run to the design school known as “Sultan of Brunei on a methadone bender.” Or Donald Trump thinks you walk funny.
Don Lemon hits seven of those qualifications. (We have no idea about his taste in interior decorating.) So now the Department of Justice has arrested him, along with local Minneapolis journalist Georgia Fort (also Black!), for the crime of covering a protest that the administration dislikes. Ain’t freedom of speech grand? We eagerly await Bari Weiss’s strident defense of Lemon.
Two other activists were also arrested. Surprise! They are also Black!
The arrests are related to a church protest that Lemon and Fort covered on January 18. In that incident, a group of activists entered the Cities Church in Minneapolis and disrupted its Sunday services to protest a pastor at the church, David Easterwood, who also has a job running the local ICE field office.
Lemon and Fort entered the church with the protestors, but as journalists covering the event. Once inside, they interviewed parishioners and clergy along with protesters. No matter what you think of activists physically interrupting a worship service — and frankly, we think the smart move would have been to confine themselves to protesting on the sidewalk outside — what Lemon and Fort did was very standard journalist stuff.
The Trump administration, which has declared Christians the most persecuted people on the planet, flew into a rage and promised justice. By that Monday, the DOJ was in front of a magistrate judge to ask for arrest warrants for eight of the people involved, none of whom, very coincidentally, seem to have been any of the many white people involved.
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