Don Lemon is already on a publicity tour, after he was arrested last week for allegedly inciting a riot that disrupted Sunday worship at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, so he could confront a preacher who also serves as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official. On "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," Lemon recounted his arrest, framing it as a deliberate attempt by the administration to turn him into a spectacle.
"I pressed the elevator button, and all of the sudden I feel myself being jostled, and people were trying to grab me and put me in handcuffs," Lemon recalled. "And I said, 'What are you doing here?' They said, 'We are here to arrest you.' And I said, 'Well, who are you?' And then finally they identified themselves, and then I said, 'Well, if you are who you are, then where's the warrant?'"
And they didn't have a warrant, so they had to wait for someone from outside, an FBI guy, to come in to show me a warrant on a cell phone, and by that time, I was like trying to figure out what was going on, get my bearings. My glasses had fallen on the floor. I can't read that. So they had to pick my glasses up, and I read it, and still, what does that mean?
And then they, it was a bunch of guys, and they took me outside. The FBI guys were out there. It had to be, maybe, a dozen people. Which is a waste, Jimmy, of resources, because I told them weeks before, maybe once or twice... I think my attorney tried to contact them once maybe twice, that I could just go in and it could just be the folks working there that day. And they wouldn't have all these people following me around.
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"They want that, they want to embarrass you," Lemon added. "They want to intimidate you, they want to instill fear, and that's why they did it that way."
🚨 JUST IN: Don Lemon is furious that he got arrested for storming a church, saying all of the federal agents scared him and that it was too much
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 3, 2026
“They want to strike fear, intimidate you, embarrass you!” 🤡
How about the churchgoers you terrorized?!pic.twitter.com/g21jvRQyx0
Lemon is accused of violating civil rights law, after a federal grand jury indicted him on conspiracy against rights of religious freedom at a place of worship, plus injuring, intimidating, and interfering with the exercise of religious freedom.
Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.
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