LOS ANGELES: Journalist Don Lemon was released from custody Friday after he was arrested and hit with federal civil rights charges over his coverage of an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church. Lemon was arrested overnight in Los Angeles, while another independent journalist and two protest participants were arrested in Minnesota. He struck a confident, defiant tone while speaking to reporters after a court appearance in California, declaring: “I will not be silenced.” “I have spent my entire career covering the news.

L’arresto è avvenuto nonostante il suo avvocato avesse chiarito che Lemon si trovava sul posto esclusivamente in qualità di giornalista

The former CNN host and Trump critic was taken into custody while covering the Grammys.