{"id":3127,"date":"2026-01-30T15:43:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:43:43","slug":"don-lemon-has-been-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3127","title":{"rendered":"Don Lemon has been arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-breaking\">BREAKING.<\/h2>\n<p>Don Lemon has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The former CNN host, Lemon, was taken into custody by federal agents on Thursday night while he was in Los Angeles covering the Grammy\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>He has been arrested after entering a Minnesota church and filming anti-immigration enforcement protesters.<\/p>\n<p>His attorney said: \u201cDon will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and transparent attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration will not stand.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Attorney for my colleague and friend Don Lemon has released a statement saying Don was arrested by federal agents in LA last night. This is outrageous and cannot stand. The First Amendment is under attack in America! <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V4TVEK7Icy\">pic.twitter.com\/V4TVEK7Icy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acosta\/status\/2017222913842106377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Lemon himself said in a recent video: \u201cOnce the protest started in the church, we did an act of journalism, which was report on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many are now questioning freedom within the USA.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon\u2019s former CNN colleague, Jim Acosta, wrote: \u201cThis is outrageous and cannot stand. The First Amendment is under attack in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Sky US correspondent, James Matthews, said: \u201cHe has been a critic of Donald Trump and this does, of course, raise questions about fundamental freedoms in this country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis lawyer issued a statement calling this an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and she\u2019s saying that he will fight these charges vigorously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The White House responded with a post of their own about Lemon being arrested, writing: \u201cWhen life gives you lemons\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Bottom ad unit --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Custom pseudo content\/category -->\n            <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>#Don #Lemon #arrested<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING. Don Lemon has been arrested. The former CNN host, Lemon, was taken into custody by federal agents on Thursday night while he was in Los Angeles covering the Grammy\u2019s. &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; He has been arrested after entering a Minnesota church and filming anti-immigration enforcement protesters. His attorney said: \u201cDon will fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[775,2707,2708],"class_list":{"0":"post-3127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-arrested","9":"tag-don","10":"tag-lemon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}