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BREAKING: DON LEMON AMONG REPORTERS JAILED BY REGIME

If documenting inconvenient truth is treated as conspiracy, then labor, climate, and police-accountability reporting all become crimes.

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Jan 30, 2026
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In Minneapolis, the Shocking Arrest of the Journalist Omar Jimenez Live on  CNN | The New Yorker
CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and his crew arrested live on air during the George Floyd protests (May 29, 2020).

The Regime arrested four journalists for covering a protest this week.

In a healthy democracy, that sentence should stop you cold. But this is the United States. And we’ve seen this before.

Multiple media outlets have now confirmed that federal authorities have arrested four reporters for doing their jobs — for observing, documenting, and bearing witness. Not under martial law. Not during a declared emergency. But under the ordinary authority of the federal government, on the orders of those currently in power.

Among those arrested was Don Lemon, along with other journalists who were covering a community protest event at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.

The church is headed by David Eastwood, the director of ICE’s local field office, who has advocated for kidnapping and trafficking children and is a named defendant in an ACLU lawsuit about ICE abuse.

Lemon and other journa…

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