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Don Lemon has been launched from custody after being criminally charged for protecting a church protest in Minneapolis, and he made it clear … this is not going to silence him.
Lemon informed the gang … he has been a reporter for 30 years, and he is not going to cease doing what he has at all times carried out — protecting the information.
As we reported, Lemon was arrested Thursday evening at his house in Los Angeles, for allegedly co-conspiring with protesters to disrupt a church service in Minneapolis.
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Harvey Levin sounded off Thursday morning … Lemon was not conspiring, he was reporting, and his arrest was a sq. violation of the First Modification’s assure of freedom of speech.
Lemon was launched with out bail. He says he appears ahead to vindication at trial.
Previous to addressing the media Lemon appeared in courtroom the place a decide determined he might go with out having to put up bail whereas his federal case performs out.
Lemon wore a crisp, all white go well with … waving and smiling at supporters — and winking at his husband at one level.
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He is been ordered to look at a courtroom in Minnesota on Monday February 9 … and his lawyer stated he is “committed to fight this case and not going anywhere.”
Nevertheless, the decide has given Lemon permission to journey … permitting him to go to France over the summer time on a boating journey with buddies as long as the journey would not battle with the courtroom’s schedule. Clearly, he should abide by the overall circumstances of probation.
As we reported, Lemon was charged with violating a federal legislation by interfering with worship throughout a January anti-ICE protest at Cities Church in Minneapolis on January 18.
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In an announcement on Friday, U.S. Legal professional Common Pam Bondi stated … “At my direction, early this morning federal agents arrested Lemon, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy, in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.”
Lemon has been charged with one depend of conspiracy in opposition to the fitting of non secular freedom at a spot of worship and one depend of injuring, intimidating, and interfering with the train of the fitting of non secular freedom at a spot of worship.
His lawyer, Abbe Lowell, sounded off Friday morning — saying Don was there as a journalist, protected by the First Modification, and that his arrest was a distraction from the Trump admin investigating the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by the hands of federal immigration enforcement brokers in Minneapolis.
As we informed you — the feds initially tried to cost 8 individuals tied to the Cities Church protest, Don included … however a Justice of the Peace decide solely signed off on costs for 3, and Lemon wasn’t certainly one of them.
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Don was in L.A. to cowl Grammys weekend when all this went down — we caught up with him after his launch and he gave us a thumbs up when requested if he would nonetheless be going to the Grammys.
