WASHINGTON — Former CNN anchor Don Lemon has been arrested for his involvement in a Minnesota church protest opposing U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation campaign – the latest Justice Department move against a critic of the administration. Lemon livestreamed a demonstration earlier this month that disrupted a church service in St. Paul protesting at the thousands of armed immigration agents Trump has sent this month into Minnesota’s biggest cities. Federal agents in the surge have frequently clashed with protesters and fatally shot two U.S. citizens, one before and one after the protest that led to Lemon’s arrest. He is charged with conspiring to deprive others of their civil rights and violating a law that forbids obstructing access to houses of worship, according to a Justice Department official. FBI and Homeland Security Investigations agents arrested him in Los Angeles, according to his lawyer Abbe Lowell. The move occurred just over a week after a federal magistrate judge declined to issue an arrest warrant for Lemon. He had been under FBI surveillance for several
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