{"id":13203,"date":"2026-01-31T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=13203"},"modified":"2026-01-31T03:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:08:00","slug":"don-lemon-arrested-following-church-invasion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=13203","title":{"rendered":"Don Lemon Arrested Following \u2018Church Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Arrest During the Grammys<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was taken into federal custody in Los Angeles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>while covering the Grammy Awards, linked to his presence at a Jan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 protest that disrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Protest and Charges<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Cities Church, anti\u2013immigration-enforcement protesters interrupted worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lemon livestreamed the event and interacted with participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was charged with \u201cconspiracy to deprive rights\u201d and violating the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FACE Act by \u201cinterfering by force\u201d with worshippers\u2019 First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Legal Dispute<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A federal magistrate previously declined to sign a criminal complaint,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>citing a lack of probable cause at that stage. Lemon\u2019s attorney called the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>arrest \u201can unprecedented attack on press freedom,\u201d saying Lemon was reporting, not organizing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Broader Response<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorney General Pam Bondi vowed continued prosecutions, saying,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you protested and went into that church\u2026 we are coming after you,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>emphasizing that \u201cno individual is \u2018above the law.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrest During the Grammys Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was taken into federal custody in Los Angeles while covering the Grammy Awards, linked to his presence at a Jan. 18 protest that disrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Protest and Charges At Cities Church, anti\u2013immigration-enforcement protesters interrupted worship. Lemon livestreamed the event&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13205,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13203\/revisions\/13205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}