Former cnn anchor don lemon arrested cbs reports (reuters.com)
‘He is charged with conspiring to deprive others of their civil rights and violating a law that forbids obstructing access to houses of worship, according to a Justice Department official.’
‘FBI and Homeland Security Investigations agents arrested him in Los Angeles, according to his lawyer Abbe Lowell. The move occurred just over a week after a federal magistrate judge declined to issue an arrest warrant for Lemon.’
‘He had been under FBI surveillance for several days leading up to his arrest, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The FBI declined to comment.’
Lemon was fired from CNN in 2023. He was me too ed after comments about women which some powerful women said were sexist.
'Earlier this month, FBI agents with a search warrant seized laptops and other devices from the home of a Washington Post reporter who has extensively covered Trump's firing of hundreds of thousands of federal workers, saying it was an investigation into the leaking of secret government information.'
Journalists in the US get arrested sometimes by local governments (who generally don't understand or don't care about civil rights), but the Lemon arrest may be precedent setting.