Mother Bones#Via Don Lemon / donlemonofficial
7:58 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles."
#Via Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
8:04 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"This just in: 'Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards,' Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell says."
#Via Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly
8:32 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"The Trump admin already failed to get an arrest warrant on him—magistrate judge refused so DOJ went to appeals court, prompting that letter from the chief district judge torching the DOJ, and appeals court denied too—so God knows what this new one is, or if they even bothered to get a warrant.
Here are the prior letters from the chief district judge in Minnesota about the Don Lemon (among others) arrest warrant."
#Via Adam Serwer
@adamserwer
8:17 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"This is a direct assault on the First Amendment by the Trump administration."
#Via Radley Balko
@radleybalko
8:28 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"Jesus Christ. The 'pivot' lasted about 15 minutes.
Arresting a black journalist under the Ku Klux Klan Act for covering a pro-immigration protest at a Christian nationalist church led by an ICE officer is the perfect encapsulation of this administration's authoritarianism, racism, and trolling."
#Via jenna ruddock
@Jenna
8:33 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis."
#Via The Letterhack / theletterhack
8:46 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero.
Word is, authorities are working off a list. Georgia was number 8 on the list."
#Via Radley Balko
@radleybalko
8:37 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"I guess we're just arresting journalists now."
#Via taylr / taylordahlin
9:30 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"feds have arrested jamael lundy alongside journalists georgia fort and don lemon for the protest at a st. paul church led by an ICE agent.
lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember.
also, more context - jamael lundy works for hennepin county attorney mary moriarty."
#Via Bill Emory / oldmanemory
9:26 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"Jamael is also a high-ranking staffer in Hennepin Attorney Mary Moriarty’s office.
Moriarty has been working with AG Ellison to ensure an independent local investigation into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
They are jailing journalists and political dissidents, folks."
#Via Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath
9:16 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"Pam Bondi confirms FOUR people were arrested related to the protest at the church, at least two are journalists:
• Don Lemon
• Georgia Fort
• Trahern Jeen Crews
• Jamael Lydell Lundy"
#Via Jonathan W. Gray / elmcitytree.blacksky
@elmcitytree
10:08 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care about Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée."
#Via Helen Kennedy
@HelenKennedy
10:09 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"Lemon has one of the nation’s best lawyers and a national profile. I’m worried about the other reporter and two activists arrested with him."
Via Tressie McMillan Cottom
@tressie
10:45 AM · Jan 30, 2026
" 'Independent' is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting with vulnerable margins."
#Via Kat Tenbarge
@kattenbarge
10:33 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should."
#Via Joyce White Vance
@JoyceVance
9:44 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism."
#Via Greg Sargent
@GregSargent
10:24 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"Source familiar with Don Lemon's arrest tells me DOJ went to a grand jury to secure an indictment (DOJ's effort to get a criminal complaint had already been rejected in court twice).
This is ugly. More soon."
#Via Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
9:55 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"MS NOW:
Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in charging Don Lemon and the other journalists who covered the Minneapolis church protests.
The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges, per Carol Leonnig."
#Via jamelle
@jbouie
11:40 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"arrest of MPLS journalists incl. don lemon is more evidence the only move the admin knows is to use force, and does not know how to respond when force is met with defiance & indifference.
the practical effect of arresting lemon et al is to spark widespread condemnation, esp. since these arrests will certainly be thrown out. doesn't mean it isn't a dangerous escalation, it does mean the white house doesn't know what to do but spam its only attack."
#Via Mike Hixenbaugh
@MikeHixenbaugh
8:51 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"As a member of the press, I filmed the church protest a few weeks ago and now I'm being arrested for that," Independent journalist Georgia Fort said. "It's hard to understand how we have a Constitution, Constitutional rights, when we can just be arrested for being a member of the press."
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#Via Spencer Ackerman /attackerman
9:59 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"I can't believe I'm writing this but: free Don Lemon."
#Via Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff
10:05 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"*Through gritted teeth* Je suis Don Lemon"
#Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@ecmclaughlin
9:01 AM · Jan 30, 2026
"They are charging Don Lemon under the FACE act (designed to prevent interference with abortion clinics) and Conspiracy to Deprive Rights (which dates back to the end of slavery, and is also known as the KKK act).
Irony has been beaten to death with a sledgehammer."
Jonas 🇩🇰@_L1vY_ @ecmclaughlin Why, what lead up to this?
@Jonasdahl See beginning and rest of thread for all the specifics. But he hasn't done anything. It's the government now trying to intimidate us by arresting journalists.
@_L1vY_ ah, just like in other non democracy countries. But it is sadly straight after the playbook.
@Jonasdahl Yes 😥😤
jamie gray 
🎸🎶✒️
Nicole ParsonsThe legal defense is often so costly that most journalists desist because they can't afford a second one.
Stargeezer Smith@_L1vY_ @elmcitytree
I think they are wrong. To them and "their" base that is probably true, but not to their opposition.
I think they are wrong. To them and "their" base that is probably true, but not to their opposition.
#Via Phil Lewis
@phil_lewis_
4:30 PM · Jan 30, 2026
"Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody."
#Via MS NOW / ms.now
6:37 PM · Jan 30, 2026
“I will not be silenced!”
Don Lemon smashes Trump's DOJ after his release from jail and indictment over Minnesota reporting.
https://www.ms.now/news/don-lemon-arrested-over-minnesota-church-protest-attorney-says
