Democrats are up in arms demanding the release of former CNN anchor Don Lemon after his arrest Thursday night, but Republicans are having the polar opposite reaction to the news.
Lemon was arrested by the federal government for his involvement in a Jan. 18 anti-ICE protest that disrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota. Lemon argues he was reporting on the event as an independent journalist and maintains he had no connection with the protest organizers.
The Department of Justice felt otherwise, accusing him of federal civil rights crimes for obstructing access to a house of worship. Lemon was one of four people arrested in connection with the protest.
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The Democratic Party cast the situation as an attack on the First Amendment with a simple
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