Former CNN anchor Don Lemon arrested over protest at Minnesota church – US politics live

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon arrested over protest at Minnesota church – US politics live

Lemon taken into custody by federal agents in Los Angeles where he was covering the Grammy awards on Thursday night, his lawyer says

Don Lemon’s arrest comes as the justice department pursues charges against protesters who disrupted a service at the Cities church in Saint Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month.

The protesters believed that the church’s pastor was a field director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whose agents have swarmed the Twin Cities in recent weeks in an aggressive immigration enforcement campaign that has resulted in the deaths of two US citizens.

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