Former CNN anchor Don Lemon taken into custody, sources say
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Key Points:
- Former cable news anchor Don Lemon was arrested Thursday night in Los Angeles by federal agents, including the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations, according to multiple sources and his lawyer.
- A grand jury was empaneled the same day, but the specific charges against Lemon have not been disclosed.
- Lemon's attorney, Abbe Lowell, defended his journalistic work as constitutionally protected under the First Amendment and criticized the Justice Department for focusing on Lemon's arrest rather than investigating the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.
- The arrest is connected to an anti-ICE protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, where demonstrators objected to an ICE official serving as a pastor; multiple people have faced charges related
