Journalist Don Lemon was detained after covering an anti-ICE protest at a church in Minnesota. The hosts of “The View” warned about the dangers of arrests like this one.
Lemon was detained on Thursday night (29) under the accusation of violating the First Amendment rights of the US Constitution, claiming that he was disrupting the exercise of religion at the location.
Hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin opened Monday’s (2) show defending Lemon’s actions.
“This happened after they went to three different courts trying to get a judge to sign the warrant,” Navarro started, saying the judges ruled there was no case.
She also mentioned that the news of Lemon’s arrest broke on the same day that millions of documents about the Epstein case were released.
The hosts continued their commentary, with Sunny Hostin saying that, in her opinion, this case has no merit.
“He’s already been sprayed with pepper spray, he’s been hit with tear gas. He was there to report the story, and nothing should have gotten in the way of that,” she said.
She added that the Trump administration did this to scare other journalists, “so that journalists won’t cover these kinds of stories.”
The show also aired a portion of Lemon’s statement after being released on Friday (30).
“The First Amendment of the Constitution protects this work for me and for countless other journalists who do what I do. I stand in solidarity with all of them, and I will not be silenced. I look forward to my day in court,” he stated.
My first remarks since being arrested last night. pic.twitter.com/Qa6v4pFqjX
— Don Lemon (@Donlemonbsky) January 30, 2026
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