MN - Journalist Don Lemon arrested for church protest, Minneapolis, 18 Jan 2026

[Ontario Mom]

This investigation has NOT been conducted with integrity.

It was a sloppy hit job by the few people left in the federal offices willing to abuse the criminal justice system.

I get it, the executive branch did not like press coverage about ICE or protests against ICE.

We are not supposed to pick an enemy and then invent crimes around him. And after people with integrity left in droves, the prosecutors that were left cobbled together this embarrassing symptom of looming facsism.

MOO

Again, all of the above about the way this investigation has been handled, lack of integrity, looming fascism, abusing the system, etc. is merely your opinion, as you've stated. Repeatedly.

I'm more interested in the evidence that allegedly supports the charges. If the evidence is there and does in fact support the charges, everyone arrested should be held accountable according to the law.

jmo

 

[SouthAussie]

This investigation has NOT been conducted with integrity.

It was a sloppy hit job by the few people left in the federal offices willing to abuse the criminal justice system.

I get it, the executive branch did not like press coverage about ICE or protests against ICE.

We are not supposed to pick an enemy and then invent crimes around him. And after people with integrity left in droves, the prosecutors that were left cobbled together this embarrassing symptom of looming facsism.

MOO

And I think that Don's actual arrest was intended to be splashy. His lawyer had offered (as is often typical and allowed) for Don to turn himself in, if he was going to be arrested.

Then Don was physically arrested by multiple officers as he waited for an elevator at his hotel, far away from MN.
That led to people questioning the intent of the arrest.

Why arrest Don at midnight?
Why send a dozen officers to arrest Don?
Why detain him at a federal courthouse for 12 hours, before releasing him?
Why not grant him permission for a phone call until the next day?
Why arrest him without the arresting officers carrying the warrant? They had to go outside and get an FBI agent to show Don the warrant on a phone.

These were not charges for committing a murder. Don had offered to turn himself in.

Link & Link & Link

 

[Ruminations]

And I think that Don's actual arrest was intended to be splashy. His lawyer had offered (as is often typical and allowed) for Don to turn himself in, if he was going to be arrested.

Then Don was physically arrested by multiple officers as he waited for an elevator at his hotel, far away from MN.
That led to people questioning the intent of the arrest.

Why arrest Don at midnight?
Why send a dozen officers to arrest Don?
Why detain him at a federal courthouse for 12 hours, before releasing him?
Why not grant him permission for a phone call until the next day?
Why arrest him without the arresting officers carrying the warrant? They had to go outside and get an FBI agent to show Don the warrant on a phone.

These were not charges for committing a murder. Don had offered to turn himself in.

Link & Link & Link

Don Lemon had previously offered to turn himself in with no drama, no squad (Mod snip) on overtime. But the feds declined to have him turn himself in and, on my tax dollars, had a large group arrest him off hours.

MOO