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By Jane Ross, Jana Winter and Andrew Goudsward, Reuters
Former CNN news anchor Don Lemon was due in court on Friday (local time) after being arrested on federal charges for his role covering a protest at a Minnesota church against Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, the Justice Department's latest move against a critic of the Republican president.
Lemon, now an independent journalist after being fired by CNN in 2023, livestreamed a protest that disrupted a 18 January service at Cities Church in St Paul against Trump's deployment of thousands of armed immigration agents into Democratic-governed Minnesota's biggest cities.
The White House touted Lemon's arrest, posting a photo of him with the caption: "When life gives you lemons" followed by an emoji of chains.
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