Don Lemon is opening up about what occurred on the evening that he was arrested.
The 59-year-old journalist made an look on Jimmy Kimmel Stay on Monday (February 2) to inform the story in his personal phrases.
Don was taken into custody on late Thursday evening whereas in Los Angeles protecting the Grammy Awards. The arrest is in connection along with his presence at St. Paul Church in Mineeapolis on January 18, the place it was believed one of many pastors was an ICE official.
Don was charged with federal civil rights crimes in connection to the anti-ICE protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church, the U.S. Division of Homeland Safety mentioned. He’s charged with conspiracy and interfering with the First Modification rights of worshipers on the Cities Church in St. Paul, the place an ICE official serves as a pastor. One other journalist and two protestors have been additionally arrested in Minnesota.
So, what occurred when he was arrested?
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Don mentioned that he went to the Black Music Collective’s Grammys occasion on Thursday evening after which went again to his resort after the occasion.
“I received again to the resort. I had my swag bag from the (occasion), and I used to be strolling as much as the room,” Don mentioned. “I pressed the elevator button and hastily, I really feel myself being jostled and other people making an attempt to seize me and put me in handcuffs. And I mentioned, ‘What are you doing right here?’ They mentioned, ‘We got here to arrest you.’ I mentioned, ‘Who’re you?’ Lastly, they recognized. I mentioned, ‘In case you are who you might be, the place’s the warrant?’ They didn’t have the warrant. So, they needed to wait for somebody outdoors, an FBI man to return in, to indicate me a warrant on a mobile phone.”
Don mentioned that his husband Tim Malone was asleep within the resort room when the arrest occurred. The one means Tim came upon about what was occurring was as a result of Don requested an agent to deliver his bracelet, which was colliding with {the handcuffs}, to his resort room.
Don mentioned that he’s doing “okay.”
“I’m not going to allow them to steal my pleasure, however that is very severe. I imply, these are federal felony prices,” he mentioned.
“I’m in the course of this, so I can’t say so much,” he added. “There’s so much that I can’t say, however what I’ll say is that I’m not a protester. I went there to be a journalist. I went there to chronicle and doc and report what was occurring. I used to be following that one group round. And in order that’s what I did. I reported on them. However I do suppose that there’s a distinction between a protester and a journalist.”
Don walked the crimson carpet along with his husband on the Grammys.