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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Justin Baragona

Free press organizations and journalists sound the alarm over Don Lemon’s arrest: ‘Journalism is not a crime’

Two weeks after Don Lemon reported on an anti-ICE protest in a Minnesota church, federal agents arrested the former CNN anchor in Los Angeles as he was preparing to cover the Grammys, prompting several free press organizations and journalists to sound the alarm over the Trump administration’s “anti-free speech” crackdown.

“Journalism is not a crime,” both the National Press Club and PEN America said in statements on Friday morning.

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