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Swede

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Tue Feb 3, 2026, 06:50 PM Feb 3

Don Lemon says a dozen agents came to arrest him even though he offered to turn himself in [View all]

Independent journalist Don Lemon said about a dozen federal agents came to his Los Angeles hotel to arrest him last week, even though his attorney had told authorities he would turn himself in to face federal civil rights charges over his coverage of an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church.
Lemon told ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel that sending the agents was a waste of resources because law enforcement wouldn't have had to dispatch agents to follow him if he had been allowed to surrender to authorities.

“I was walking up to the room and I pressed the elevator button, and then all of a sudden, I feel myself being jostled and and people trying to grab me and put me in handcuffs,” he said Monday on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/other/don-lemon-says-a-dozen-agents-came-to-arrest-him-even-though-he-offered-to-turn-himself-in/ar-AA1Vy4hI?uxmode=ruby&ocid=edgdhpruby&pc=U531&cvid=69828903d5134a1f949f253b9d3975a2&ei=10

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